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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 18 November 1940, Page 4

Show Specials in the Showroom! Special value in Ladies’ Silk Frocks and Ensembles. Plains and florals. All sizes. 49/6 and 79/6. McKay’s.*

Show Specials in the Showroom! Spring Coats in fitting and box styles. New pastel shades. One price, 79/6. Ladies’ model millinery in white and colours, 19/6. McKay’s.*

The Annual Horticultural Show and Display of Handwork of the Riwaka School will be held at the school on Wednesday next (20th November), commencing at 2 p.m.

Summer Underwear at McKay’s! Art. Silk and Cotton Vests, lace-trimmed. Peach and White, from 5/6. Also Pantie to match, from 5/6.*

Beach Wear at McKay’s! Play Suits in One. Two and Three-piece styles. All in Gay Floral Prints, S.W., W., 8/11 to

Amusing An amusing position arose in the Supreme Court at Napier when a Maori woman appeared as petitioner in divorce proceedings. Counsel explained that she could speak and understand English, but would find it easier to think in Maori, so he asked for an interpreter to be obtained. Accordingly all questions were worded in English, translated into Maori, then replied to by witness —in English! On several occasions witness made her reply before the interpreter had had time to make the translation, to the amusement of the Court. Very Yellow “Mussolini has more yellow in him than a porcupine has quills on its back,” said the Hon. R. Semple in the course of his speech at the Home Guard rally at Invercargill (reports the “Southland Times”). “Bullies are always cowards and he is the worst of all. a yellowhearted coward,” Mr Semple added. “I hope he is caught before the war is over and if he is, do you know what I would do with him? I would hand him over to a group of Abyssinian women. They would fix him.” (Laughter and applause.) Lemons From Palestine A news item in the Palestine “Post” of 10th September, stated “that the present high cost of lemons in England will be reduced as large quantities are sent from Palestine. The present price in England is sixpence compared with a shilling a short time ago.” Milk for Troops A suggestion that powdered milk should be sent to soldiers serving in Egypt instead of milk preserved in tins is contained in a letter received from a member of the First Echelon by relatives in Auckland. He says that as soon as a tin of milk is opened it has to be used and this does not prove economical. The letter also mentions that the men are well supplied with saltwater soap.

‘Grave Injustice to Dairy Farmer’

After making allowance for increased costs and for the payment to the dairy farmer in depreciated money he was getting to-day about 9d a pound actual purchasing power for his produce, Mr W. J. Broadfoot, M.P. for Waitomo, stated in an address at Waipawa (reports the “Hawkes Bay Daily Mail”). The overseas realisation had nothing to do with the guaranteed price: it was purely an internal matter, so the Hon. W. Nash had said when he introduced the scheme, said Mr Broadfoot. At the recent dairy conference he plainly admitted that in general the economy of the country would have to be organised on the basis of what New Zealand got for exports. The whole basis of the scheme was therefore being shattered. The price for butter over 34 years before the guaranteed price was introduced was Is 2Jd a pound, said Mr Broadfoot. Mr Nash made his price Is 2£d although his independent tribunal said that it should be a higher figure. The pegged exchange at £125 (New Zealand) in lieu of £IOO sterling was a grave injustice to the dairy farmer. If the exchange were allowed to go free it would be at least £145 (New Zealand). The producer was thus being robbed of one-seventh of the value of his produce in New Zealand, which amounted to £5,000,000 per annum.