The Waikato Independent MONDAY, MAY 18, 1942 TOWN AND COUNTRY

Waikato Independent, Volume XLII, Issue 4003, 18 May 1942, Page 2

The Waikato Independent MONDAY, MAY 18, 1942 TOWN AND COUNTRY

Net For Teacher. —There aas been grown at Tauranga an apple that is guaranteued to win the heart of any teacher. The apple is of the Prince Alfred variety, and tips the scales at 11b 14oz.

Bakers’ Difficulties—A suggestion to the bakers of Tauranga that they should amalgamate for the purpose of baking the necessary bread for, Tauranga instead of running five bakehouses as at present, was made by the Manpower Committee.

Returns of Income.— Somebody once described May as a ‘ merry month. To most of us it is the month when income tax forms have to be filled in and forwarded to the commissioner. An announcement in another column details the obligations entailed.

State Houses.—“We have been told definitely that work on Government houses is to stop, and only those at present under construction will be completed,” stated tne chairman of the Manpower Committee (Mr E. Edwards) at a sitting m Tauranga.

N.Z.E.F. Times. —A fine budget of New' Zealand news is contained in a recent copy of the N.Z.E.F- Times which has just reached Cambridge. Published in Cairo and issued free to the troops, the paper serves to keen our men overseas in close touch with what is happening at home in their absence.

T? 0 r Soldiers’ Club. —Offers of several pictures of suitable subjects, and also of enlarged photographs of historic interest, have been made by members of the Cambridge Returned Services’ Association to the soldiers’ Club. No doubt manv more pictures and souvenirs will be forthcoming to decorate the club rooms before the official opening is held.

Trials of Airmen. —The other day a pilot, on arriving at a remote landing ground, found that the wind indicator waS missing from its usual 'post. A search was made. The Natives were Questioned, and eventually the officials found three women with new white dresses made from the missing indicator. The thickest end had been taken by an adult for a skirt, the next section formed a skirt for a young girl, and the thin end was draped around the waist of a child!

Why He Lost Interest.—He was one of the defenders in a military exercise, and had been placed in a strategic posilion, not far from a main road, to watch for the approach of the “enemy.” Giving his report later, he said: “I saw a man in shorts, and then I saw somebody in skirls, and I then lost interest in the man in shorts.” When told later that a party of the enemy had slipped past he said: “That must have been when I was watching the skirt.”

Stockingless GWs.—Many of the hardy followers of the stockingless vogue have continued to brave the elements, even through these chilly days- One sees bare Jegs frequently in Cambridge—but, apparently, causing more discomfort to the observer, who shivers sympathetically, than to the owner of the legs. A number of Wellington girls have adopted the American knee-stock-ing idea, and are wearing men’s grey ribbed golf hose, turned down and fitting snugly just below the hem of their tweed skirts and suits.