BREEZES

Wairarapa Daily Times, 11 March 1932, Page 4

BREEZES

New Stone Fruit.

Air George Klein, North Auckland, has been successful in evolving a new stone fruit, a cross between a Reach and a Satsuma. plum grown frojn a seedling, says an exchange. The fruit, which is of a good size, has every outside appearance of a peach, the stone also having all the characteristics of a peach. The flesh, however, is of the same blood-red colour and textiuc as the Satsuma plum. Although not so palatable for dessert as most peaches, they are excellent for bottling and jam-making. The tree is also a prolific cropper, as is evidenced by the quantity of fruit picked by Air Klein this season from the one tree.

The Family Sots to Work.

Seven people, representing three generations in one family, are at present occupied in harvest work on a farm in Ashburton County, says the “Guardian.” This unusual state of asairs has been necessitated by the lack of finance in the family coffers, but it ,has proved to be a satisfactory method of harvesting and stacking about 40 stacks of wheat and oats. The first and second generation representatives have carried out tlio heavy work, while the third geenration have been engaged in the more congenial task of carrying the lunches to the fields, varying the task on the hot days by frequent plunges in a nearby pond. This is the first time in 40 years that- outside labour lists not been engaged on this farm.

“Do Something Yours elves.”

The Chief Secretary of Western Australia (Air Baxter), after hearing a recent deputation of sustenance workers regarding conditions, said that Alinisters liad been worrying to tiud money for sustenance, and then went out and found loafers everywhere. In one ease he had witnessed ten men working oiri job that could have been done by one man in the same time. Such men were a menace to the community. The country would never get out of its trouble under such conditions. Some people did not seem to realise the State’s serious position. The Government did not have the money to give yiore work. It appeared that some people had lost all sense of proportion. One section-asked the Government day after day to sacrifice different assets; another section said it should keep up> the old, extravagant expenditure; another wanted a moratorium, not realising that such acts would freeze all their assets and make impossible a position that was bad enough. Another section wanted all sorts of better conditions. Tkcj people had been living in a fool’s park-; dise. “You must not ask the Government to do everything. Do something for yourselves,” he said.

Ne-w Guard Determined,

The New Guard anniversary proceedings at the Sydney Town Hall were marked by determination of unmistakable character (says the Sydney correspondent of the Melbourne “Argus”). There were direct challenges as to misuse of the police. The loyalist New Guard, standing for King and country, * and harassed by the police because of declarations of hostility to enemies of the country, and endmies of the conntry speaking and writing offensively jfc of the King, and permitted to under the care of the Trades Hall, which is another name for the rulers of New South Wales, were pictures etched bv the speakers. It was alleged tlfat camps of unemployed all over the State had been strategically placed by “red” agents in order to be most- serviceable for the rising which Communists had had in mind for more than a year. It was further stated that down the South Coast men could be seen drilling with arms, whereas when the New Guard assembled without any suggestion of aggressiveness, all the police were called to watch them. “There would have been a revolution ere this but for the existence of the New Guard,” declared a speaker, and he arrayed evidence in proof. The most impressive moment was when the 5000 men present stood ijQ and made solemn affirmation that they would not discontinue their activities vntil Communism has been completed crushed. Colonel Eric Campbell I<M and each man. bolding aloft hi« right hand, repeated afer him (substituting his own name) the grave words he uttered.