CORRESPONDENCE

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 April 1916, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE

T I Ou:' correspondents' opinions are their own ; t.'io responsibility of editorial odes, uiii-vijs suliiciei.it ballast for the editor's shoulders.j A VOICE I'ROM O'HAU. Sir.- -The yarns of de .llougement .still {4iu \i» e. In your light airy coiumn, otherwise the "tlocais" you give a vivid description of cattle in Shetland being fed on fish. It is evident that the local was not submitted to the leading Shetlander in the Dominion,. Sir Robert Stout, or you would not have printed this "fishy" story. ''iXature." I suppose refers to a journa It oi' that n'anie, but don't Bubseriba to it any more. Its directions wHI mislead you. Dry salt nsh is good for a counter lunch in a New Zea.aud "pub," but food for cattle ! ! Yd- v; had your leg pulicd. In Shetland.' the land is sometimes manured with fresh (?) fisji, but the sheep that suprply the famous Shetland wool feed on the same diet as the half-6reds do here. I am, etc., SHETLAXDEH. Ohau, April 4tli, 1916. (The fact that cattle "are ' fed on fish is a "chiel that wmna" ding," os the Shetlanders' near neighbours phrase it. To reed cattle on fish—and raw fish at that—is well-known to be a common winter custom .in Newfound'«nd,—Elitor Chronicle)'.'