Of Local Interest

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 203, 27 August 1941, Page 10

Of Local Interest

Victosy Club Donation At the recent Home Guard ball, members of the Victory Club sold “V” ribbons to the patrons. £8 8s was raised and the club has donated this amount to tho Pahiatua Recruits’ Presentation Fund. Interference of Officialdom At the annual meeting of the North Tiraumea Dairy Co. the chairman mentioned that during the year, owing to shortage of factory staff, a great deal of the crating of cheese nad been done 'by the suppliers themselves. lie understood that the Labour Department had objected to the farmers doing their own work in tho factory and that it was expected that those who did not do the work should be paid for it. Asked it this was a fact or just a humorous reference to interference of officialdom, Mr. Rose stated that it was a very real and serious statement. Preferred Butter Factory “I wouldn't supply the Kohinui factory if I could get out of it,” was the statement of one farmer present at tho annual meeting of the North Tiraumea factory. When asked for his | reasons he stated that, although his I farm was miles away from a butter (factory, it paid him better to supply the latter concern, even if he got 2d per lb. less for butterfat. When asked why it was that thousands of farbiers in the Dominion were supplying cheese factories instead of butter factories, the statement was made that ‘‘the thousands of farmers were fools.” This statement caused no end of merriment. Civil Defence Films Shown On Monday evening, led by the local band, tho Red Cross, Red Cross Transport, W.W.3.A. units, the E.P.S. Company and the Fire Brigade, numbering in all over 400 persons, inarched througn the town to the Foresters* llall, where there was screened a series of “talkie” films on civil defence sponsored by tho Shell Oil Company of New Zealand. The pictures in no uncertain manner showed the courago and resourcefulness of the people of Great Britain. Everyone left the hall impressed that the little effort that we are making is necessary, but at the same time only a fraction of what our kith and kin in the Old Land are doing and the risks they are taking. Mr. S. K. Siddells, who was present, expressed to Messrs. Newton and Adams, representatives of the company, the gathering’s sincerest appreciation of tho interest and enterprise of the company in providing, free of charge, this unique system of instruction.