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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 128, 28 February 1928, Page 11

One day recently in Warkworth a sign painter of a well-known oil proprietary firm was busy at the task of preparing a large wall for the reception of a sign bearing the name of his company s product, and had applied a coat of blue paint, edged with a border of yellow (says the “North Auckland Times L He then knocked off work, intending to complete the sig a the following morning. To his surprise and indignation next morning he found that his work of the previous day had been completely ruined tho blue paint being nearly all smeared off. The irate sign painter naturally thought it to be the work of children, but inquiries failed to reveal the culprit. Some hours Later the Local boardinghouse keeper missed his cow, and a search was made. Some little boys volunteered the information that Usey had seen the cow lying in a paddock, and on discovery it was found to be dying from lead poisoning. Streaks of blue paint on the cow’s face evidenced the fact that the animal had licked the wet paint off the wall.