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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1990, 21 February 1914, Page 6

'A meeti«g_ of GJtizcßs .fit layercarglil arguing decided, to form a Southland Progressive Sdeiety, the obiect being to further, the Ttiterests of- tto pr«viiipe. A frevisitfoal Conimittflfl-Was sot up' to dtaft a constitution afld report to a future nieeKng. Rf was raeivtiaited.that tho step was necessary if only to eoiiii* teraet the iftftuttnee of the Dunedin Espassion Le.agfie,.whoj it was said, :-espeaialty in; regard to tourist traffic, Wero .ehdoavo'urfng to inisksad the people in other' paits of Kew Zealand aisd Australia. , Chickens wliicli ieso their tiinfdi.ty and tcCoine bold pnd pitShacvaue.-üßiier tiio iflof oicetttenl stinmJus ,\ve:re deecriWl b.v Sff. Theme Bnkcr in a, pnpffr read betete the J|e.val Sooistf. of -A*ts. Mr. Baker said eOula \>A erosiv l.vinler electric jtiwajus iit abo-ut tfoublo tho rite, thus do(tbliti(t tho output of a chicken farm, .And ha-tving t!ii> fwd W-H ■per elltckcn. The.vittiliiy of the treated chicken wtw rcn-rflfkaWe, iJuiiiig t!io treatment they wore so highly ctoprd with elcotfiftity iliiit quite a distjiffit shock waS Mt in the fingers on touelvii!K 'them, althougli tlt» birds werp sujntejnsly tt-nconscioiiß ot anything, the eparfe whicii flpw fr«ra their boaks mi their pttituiiK one's fitigftrs did net appear to M felt itt tile least by them.,'.

'Mi% W. H. PeckiH, o, faiHOus gfyarid rli\top deater, lifts retired with a- fortitni) 4jt the early atfc of forty-tiva. Mr. P-pjtJtilt-, wfvo spcEiaUsod in Bi'itish aiul colani-ril iFsneSy'reocntty t>aid £2im for the cot-1-ceiioft of 'the late Sir William Avtw He also boiißlit. pftrt of Uμ lots fe'rl nf ?oltectSo«, U is sfa.k.d.iiwt tti* rfiee paid for Mr, Peckitt's eoHJo, tiofi lisa into cis figuies,