Notes of the Day

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 208, 2 September 1944, Page 2

Notes of the Day

Pte. H. C. Jefferies received the Feildtng Patriotic Society’s presentation at the Borough Council Chambers yesterday. Feilding vital statistics for August together with those for the same month last year, given in parenthesis, were: Births 16 (22); deaths 8 (10); marriages 6 (7). Two stalls for the sale of Victory Loan Bonds were in operation in Feilding yesterday in charge of members of the W.W.S.A. One is situated adjacent the Post Office in Manchester Square and the other outside the Money Order Office in Manchester Street. These stalls were made available by the Military authorities in Palmerston North and it is hoped that this facility for the purchase of Bonds will be availed of by the public at large. Fairly satisfactory business was recorded yesterday. Rainfall in Feilding during August totalled I.9ins. compared with 2.751n5. for the same month last year and the average ef 2.B6ins. for the eight months of the year. The month was particularly mild and free from rain and on one day only was wind evident and then it blew almost in hurri cane force. The heaviest fall of the month was on August 20, when 62 points were recorded. So far this year, 18.47in5. of rain have fallen compared with the average of 26.82in5. and 26.24in5. for the same period last year. Spring growth has proceeded without interruption although a succession of five frosts was experienced early in the month. The executive committee of the Oroua Federation of Women’s Institutes met in Feilding yesterday afternoon. Correspondence regarding the mobile health exhibition was dealt with and representatives appointed to discuss the matter with the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union. It was reported that the Awahuri Women’s Institute had been reopened with the prospect of successful meetings. Remits were discussed from the National Council of Women and a report of arrangements in hand for the mobile health exhibition in Marton was received. A report of the Dominion Council meeting held recently at Wellington was given by the delegate and arrangements were made for the halfyearly Federation Council meeting at Feilding on October 27. That the work of rehabilitating returned servicemen into civilian occupations should be assisted by the formation of local and district committees complete with secretariat was the keynote of the address given to the Feilding Rotary Cmb yesterday by Rotarian T. Ward, of Marton. The speaker dealt with the difficulties that were being met with in puttin' the rehabilitation scheme into effect and suggested that this was largely caused by the fact that everything was being left to the Government departments to do. Rotarian F. J. Allen, president of the Feilding R.S.A., informed the club that the Feilding R.S.A. had already put forward proposals on similar lines to th* Director of Rehabilitation and further negotiations regarding the appointment of an officer to handle all rehabilitation matters in Feilding and district were proceeding. Director W. Carthew presided at the gathering in the absence of president L. J. Wild.

Yesterday afternoon in Feilding, a meeting of district R.S.A. interests convened by Mr. E. N. Rowe, of Rongotea, was held to discuss the scheme of rearing calves in anticipation of meeting the requirements of returned soldiers intending to take up dairying. The R.S.A. sponsored such a scheme on a national basis, but this did not receive the support anticipated from the Government and since then local branches of the organisation have been fathering local and district schemes. This valuable work has a dual purpose in that it provides the medium of rearing good quality heifers and protects as far as the availability of such heifers goes, the returned man against the risks involved in buying on the open market. In brief, the scheme is that farmers are Invited to rear an extra heifer calf to the weaning stage and the calf is then put to grazing on a sheep farm. The farmer rearing the calf might undertake to graze it until It is close to profit. The officials of the R.S.A. do all the organising and undertake to dispose of the calves at assessed prices. Mr. G. Burgess, of Halcombe, stated that in his district, there has been willing cooperation on the part of dairy farmers to develop the scheme. The meeting agreed to Invite other local branches of the R.S.A. to undertake activities In line with that how being pursued in this area.