The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1910

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 June 1910, Page 2

The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1910

SWEDES EOR THE ARGENTINE

.Tiik .astounding news te-len;r.aplietl from Feilding, yesterday, to all el lief towns in the provincial district (i'f Wellington (tliaJ't Mr Short, oil' Paorangi. had cabled to Feilding .I'er thirty sacks of local sw'edes and carrots 'to 'be .sent to the Argentine for the np-keep of his returning stock) is of a quality to wake men ponder. Is there a peculiar "bite" in the flesh of the Wilding swede., or an extra sugary sweetness in the l'Vdding cur rot, that places them aibove the common; yellow iturnip of P.almerston North, or 'the ired field carrot oif Horow.henita County? It seems, to the superficial thinker, that the extraordinary .successes of the Feilding sheepfnrmer in the land of the. Argentine has en used liini t'o he abnormally prowl of the district that his sheep were bred in, 'and t'hia.t he considers tlicro is 110 swede hut the FeilJing one; no carrot- like the Paorangi root ; "110 place like bonne," and other 'matters of similiar insular exclusiveness. To us, however, having rega.nl to various incidents precedent, it seems that one more instance is to be added to the insiduous attempt to "boost" up Feilding's initoiieists at the expense of other centres, whosta newspapers are compelled to pay tho telegraphic piper. "Were the present time ia little further away from the Otaki races, the results at which showed us the folly "of laying odds on any chances, we would he inclined to wager that what tho Paorangi sheep breeder really did Wi\s to onible for a supply of root

food to 1)0 sent to a port fit which tlie first supplies would 'he likely to become too stale to continue palatable to the very valuable sheep hie will ho bringing hack from the

world's championship show of the Argentine. In ot her centres ith.an Ee-ilding the placing ami meeting of an onW for thirty .sacks of carrots and .swedes would have been filled in .silence. In one or two other places the fact might hnve hren recorded ill n three liive local, paragraph, perhaps. Eeild.iing rfws ■above the occasion hy despatching a loiip; itelegmn concerning the matter ;io places that don't care, a potato peeling how many sacks of swedes were ordered. However, our turn will conn l . The next time we find niwU'e.i • 5-nrid!rf7 with a "pm«.s colled" awl wholly liiinocoswiry telegram of this description we will re.talin.le hy i elegra-phing io Feilding full particulars of the rpiaivt iti'>s cf prime Canterbury wheat tlia.t we have ordered from Ififehings. Hankins awl Co. for the upkeep of "Sally" ,hkl "Speckles" and "The Lizard." who are the chief throe amongst our fifteen Silver "Wvandoblo liens.