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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 63, Issue 4463, 13 August 1941, Page 4

When he was asked at Rongotea why margarine was being made in New Zealand when there was surplus butter, the Minister of Marketing, Mr J. G. Barclay, said margarine was made with beef fat, which was a New Zealand product, and the producers of beef cattle, surely, had to be considered just as much as the dairy farmers.

Attention is drawn in Forest and Bird, the official publication of the Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand, to the fact that August is bird month, when the birds are cold and hungry and glad of feed. It is pointed out that where people have gardens with trees most of the birds can be encouraged by feeding, and< that many species render good service by the amount of insect life they dqptroy.

“It may interest you to know that we have clothed over 1000 families since September, 1940, many of them having brought their children away from the bombed areas of London with only the clothes they had on at the time of the raid.” This sentence appears in a letter of thanks received from Northampton, expressing gratitude for gifts of clothing and other articles from the people of New Zealand. It was letters such as this that caused the National Patriotic Fund Board to make a grant of £lOO,OOO for air raid relief in Britain.