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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13235, 10 January 1941, Page 2

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Items from tie Bay oi Plenty Times of January, IS SI: A fiaxmiil proprietor has been offering £ IS per ton for flax on the j truck at Palmerston." i A him which was given to cooks • fifty years ago is as follows; "It may not be generally known, j but still it is a fact, that peas when j shelled and allowed to stand for any j time, generate a poison. As an il- | lustration of this we may mention : that about two years ago in Mel- | bourne 7 clergymen were made ser- ; iously ill from partaking of peas j that had been shelled and allowed to stand for some 24 hours." "The Rev, C. Jordan returned tils week to Tauranga, from his lecturing tour in the South. He starts this week for Rot ora, to take duty for he Rev. Mr Spencer, who is absent through indisposition." | "The printing of newspapers by photography seems to be now within measurable distance. A machine is said to have been patented which will produce positives from one nega rive at the rate of three a second.” , -"Capt, Collins, who is now staying at the Masonic Hotel, arrived from the Waikato last Saturday.

with a view of taking up a sheep station in New Zealand and has left his wife and family at the Lower Hutt, near Wellington. He says that. if he locates himself in New Zealand, another friend of his in China will come here, and several others might also come. He is now staying- with Capt. Bennett at Te Puke.