A VALUABLE GIFT
STUD SOUTHDOWN FLOCK FOR WANGANUI COLLEGE. Sonio time ago the trustees of Wanganui Collego thought that tho spare ground at the back of the school could be used to advantage by running sheep. Tho idea was to establish ft stud Hock of Southdowns, and to get 'the senior boys of tho school's agricultural department to tnko charge of the shcop and thereby learn something of sheep-breeding. Upon, hearing this, Mr. W. Howard Booth, of Carttrton, suggested that the old boys should present the school with tho flock, iHo old boy' breeders wore written tn, and all fell in with the idea at once. Mr. Booth is at Wangnmii fo-dar taking delivery of 21 pure-bred Southdown owes, in lamb to pure Southdown rams, riip.io ewes nre being given to the school by ten different breeders-all old boys of the college.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3100, 2 June 1917, Page 10
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142A VALUABLE GIFT Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3100, 2 June 1917, Page 10
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