Koa Rebekah Lodge Notes

Northland Age, Volume X, Issue 17, 29 November 1940, Page 3

Koa Rebekah Lodge Notes

Members of Koa Rebekah Lodge No. 28 met in the Lodgeroom last Monday night, Sister J. May N.G. presiding. Arrangements for the Children’s Christmas Party to be held on llth December were discussed and Ihe programme, complete with Santa Clans, promises a real treat for the youngsters. A reminder that an Initiation ce’-e----mony will take place at the next meeting was given by the Noble Grand, and a full attendance of members is expected. At the concusion of the meeting supper was dispensed by Sisters Thompson and Gray. A gift donated by Sister A. Kniglit was won by Sister Jameson. Enthusiastic Home Guard Meeting at Waihopo There was a good attendance at a meeting held to form a Home Guard unit at Waihopo on Wednesday night and great enthusiasm was obvious. The meeting was addressed by Councillor A. D. L. Shaw, the Riding member for the district, and 43 of the settlers lost no time whatever in joining up. ☆ * ☆ The number of sheep in Australia and New Zealand at the end of 1939 was estimated at 147,609,694 head compared with 142,374,258 in 1938, an increase of 5,235,436. * * ☆ A young Marlborough farmer, before joining up in the Second N.Z.E.F., { spent some weeks in gathering and j splitting a huge pile of logs on his I parents’ farm, leaving them a supply of firewood sufficient to last them for five years, when he hopes to be back. ☆ ☆ * Mrs. Flora Wagnon, of Palo Alto, California, has a bantam rooster that acts as if it had a real sense of humour. Every day he coaxes his mate to the roof over the back porch to lay her egg, and together they watch it roll off and smash on the ground. ☆ ft ☆ The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Research Department is experimenting to find out how certain traits are transmitted in dogs. They hope ultimately to find how to breed for intelligence, aggressiveness, friendliness and other traits desired in dogs. ☆ ☆ ☆ A lady about to leave London for New Zealand was sei’iously advised to provide herself with very warm clothing. “Why?” she asked. “Oh, it’s awfully cold up there, don’t you know?” said her adviser. “It’s the place where all the frozen mutton comes from.” * * ☆ Headline in “Sunday Express”: “sft. Widow, Aged 76, Tills Own Land for Nation’s Food and No One Helps Her.” ☆ ☆ ☆ Berwickshire farmers during the grain harvest instituted a nightly control of their fields to guard against air raids. . ☆ ☆ ☆ A Queensland farm had £3,073 in notes stolen from a bix in his bedroom and the money was later found in a billy buried at the foot of a gum tree.

The odourless cabbage developed in America at Cornell University will be on the market in two years. ■et it -Ct About 4000 acres of flowers and vegetables are under greenhouse glass in the United States. An Irish clergyman’s opinion: “If parents would only employ in the purchase of farms the amount they expend in securing University degrees and a very uncertain future for their sons —and these mainly for export—they would be doing a big thing for themselves and the country.” tr G © The unfavourable season experienced in South Australia is expected to cut in half the last year’s export of 740,000 lambs. * * * A Texas, U.S.A., cattle breeder is ! appealing to his friends and business j associates to discontinue referring to j his property as the Swastika ranch, i His cattle used to be the Indian swas- ; tika, whose wings turn the opposite way from the Nazi variety, but he has now dropped its use. * ☆ * The London “Sunday Express” publishes a photo of Scotland’s “first air raid bull,” called Churchill. “When Churchill’s shed was struck by splinters it continued peacefully to re- | fleet on the folly of German airmen who might think to harass a * Churchill!” * * ☆ On completion of every six months’ service English agricultural workers are now entitled to three days’ holidays with pay, in addition to the weekly half-holiday. As holiday pay a male worker in Sussex receives 8/6 a day, in Oxfordshre 8/-. A female worker gets 7/- and 6/4 respectively. For i boys under 14 the rate is 3/- per day, j increasing each birthday until at 21 j it is 8/6. For gills the scale starts j at 2/6 under 14 years. The day is j 8 hours, with 8i hours for stockmen, j cowmen, horsemen and shepherds. * » * According to German reports, D n- ' mark is being plundered pretty effectively. Thus: “Denmark is sending us 45,000 barrels of butter a week—more than she used to send to England.” “Deliveries of butter and eggs and livestock from Denmark are exceedingly big. Indeed, there are too many pigs being sent.” “Ten thousand head of Denmark’s breeding cattle are to be sent to Germany.” o ft -tr Girl Guides of Hendon (Eng.) are collecting 10,000 silver spoons as part of the local campaign to raise £20,000 i for four fighter planes.