ITEMS OF INTEREST

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13237, 13 January 1941, Page 2

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Price for Butterfat At the last meeting of the Auckland Executive of the Farmers' Union the question of the guaranteed price for butterfat was discussed, and the following resolution was carried unanimously:—"This Executive is in agreement with the unanimous decision of the Dairy Conference, and asks that the Government will entrust the industry to a Minister who is able to implement the provisions of the Primary Products Marketing Act, the law under which the produce is purchased and marketed, and who is less hostile to the industry than the present Minister." Cat and Weasel. Sitting in the breakfastroom at mid-day, a Wellington resident was startled by the sound of a piercing cry as though coming from a wounded animal or large bird. A few minutes later a member of the household was amazed to see the house cat struggling across the back lawn with what appeared at first sight to be a large-sized kitten, but on investigation proved to be a weasel. Peter (the cat) with a bleeding lip, lay down beside it in an exhausted condition, yet on the face of the beloved cat there appeared a look of pride, which suggested ''Alone I did it." The weasel still had plenty of life left and it required many, hard blows to dispatch it. The feat was more remarkable because the cat. to reach the back lawn, had to clear two fences with his victim alive. Denounced Dictator. A great German who died in 154 6 wrote something that is uncannily apt 400 years later. One would •&¥- most think that Martin Luther anticipated Hitler when he said: "It is unseemly that war begins according to any mad fellow's will. . .it is but fitting that he who draweth the knife be overthrown and punished in the end. And it hath oftenest been so that they have lost a war who began it." America and the War "Almost everybody I have spoken to in America considers that they will get into the war sooner or later," said Mr C. S. Plank, of the engineering staff of the Post and Telegrapn Department, on returning from a two year's visit to the United States. "I think they are realising now that the future of democracy is in the bands of the two big Englishspeaking nations. The idea has been expressed in the phrase that the English-speaking people have either got to hang together or hang separately." Mr Plank covered 46.000 miles in America, visiting every State. Baby on Luggage-Carrier.

A petrol pump attendant in Auckland had a surprise when on going to fill the petrol tank at the back of a motor-car he found a perambulator with a baby in it on the luggagecarrier. The parents appeared quite unconcerned about the possibility of losing both peambulator and child should the retaining straps give way, and as the baby was comfortably asleep the attendant offered no confment on the unusual method of car---yir.i it.