lii hit, oungcr day;;, Mr 11, Holland. M.T., lived mi ilia parents’ l arm in tiio Ivirwce district. At the imvcdmg el a memorial to OoJonel l)i: K. j: Brett in the Kmvee l< wnship to murk Iho construction e-t \\ii Lor-raccs (reports the Christ* ellureli Times”) Mr. Holland said | hat lie remembered a l ime, l e)ore t)m water races brought supplies, when water from Ihe \\ aimukara: was so precious that it was used four times—for bathing the children, for washing the clothes, lor washing Dio floor and itr mixing the pig-food. 11 is parents sfinetinios sent lii.in. to a neighbour's tor a, pannikin ot water wliou a wayfarer came along and needed a. cup of tea. lie remembered the tune when Colonel Brett's name was a lionsehold word. lie remembered when a bov ,a lady telling him that the water-race scheme was -'gainst the will of Cod, dim, if He wished the Canterbury Plains to be watered would have watered them, 'the rep,lv given to the lady was that Cod h4d "given water abundantly and wanted people to take it. greater yields. That this is no idle saying is amply proved by the Hundreds of letters which reach Mr.. Sykes every year from successful farmers all over the Dominion; Men who recognise that the health of.their herd, is not to he trifled with. They have .. no trouWo in their herds with bad cleansing, mammitis,. .milk fever, colds, eta Why ?—because they haye proved the benefit gained by systematically drenching each .cow after calving .with Sykes’s Drench. Be wise and follow- their example. Give Sykes’s Drench a trial. It makes cows clean quickly in, the natural way. It prevents catarrhal discharge, ,which is apt to result in contagious abortion. It cleanses the blood and acts ,as a safeguard, against milk fever;. It .acts,.as a topic and tones up the, digestive organs. It has the largest sale of any dpencih in Australasia. Sold 'everywhere 1 7.1- a dozen,' 1/0 a packet. Each packet Contains two drenches ,
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11125, 7 February 1930, Page 2
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