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Peugeot cars have now arrived in Bideford. The French manufacturer has appointed Heard Bros as their only dealer across the entire Devon and Cornwall area. Prices range from E125 for a baby 2 seater up to E875 for a 40/50 hp car fitted with a "SuffoIk" 5 seater touring body complete with all accessories. For further details telephone Bideford 70.

An exciting new crop on the gardening page in the 6th April edition: Readers are encouraged to consider planting "a garden variety of Indian corn or maize" known as sugar or sweet corn. It is quite extensively grown and eaten as a vegetable in Canada and the United States. Several local seedsmen are selling seeds of improved acclimatisation and now is the time to sow.

Sale of Lloyds Bank premises Bideford: Messrs R Dymond & Sons are offering for sale by auction on the 8th April the freehold property situated on the corner of High Street and Allhalland Street, formerly the Devon & Cornwall Bank. The Auction took place at Tantons Hotel and in the following week's edition of the Gazette the following report was printed. "Bidding was started by G Boyle at £1000 and W H Chope bettered this by £50 and then by £50 bids each bidder bettered their offer up to a figure of £l700. Then Mr W H Chope offered £1725 at which point the property was withdrawn and made open to Private Treaty sale by Messrs Hole Seldon & Ward solicitors for the vendors"

Local residents are beginning to respond to the opening of Commons Auxiliary Hospital to receive wounded soldiers with gifts and donations including vegetables, shirts, pillows, eggs, cigarettes, cream, carpet slippers, boots, jig saw puzzles, looking glasses, jam and hymn books. Rev Dimond Dimond Churchward gave sweets.

Bideford farmers and gardeners have been asked to contribute to a national egg collection scheme to aid wounded soldiers. Across the country 130,000 eggs have been collected weekly but the organisers hope to increase this to 200,000 and Bideford is expected to play its part. Collection points have been set up at the Butchers Market at the top of Grenville Street and at the NFU offices in the High Street. In letters to the Editor in the 13th April edition a letter from Mr J M Metherell, chairman of the Bideford branch of the Devon Farmers Union "earnestly request the farmers of Bideford District to make a generous response to the appeal." Eggs will go to the base hospital in France for men who are returning from the Front Line.

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