LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1925, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

A special reminder is given of the* adjourned annual meeting of the* Hokitika Athletic and Cycling Club to-nigh t at 7.3 d o’clock sharp at Keller’s Sample Rooms. Messrs M. Houston and Co will sell by auction at the mart on September 9th at 11 a.in. by order of the mortgagee; the* farm at Kokatahi known as Xeilson Pros farm, containing 410 at*. See particulars in this issue. Final sale days, Half Price and Quarter price days at McGruer’s commencing Saturday. August Bth. The balance of our Winter Stocks to go out at bedrock prices. Famous for low prices. McGruer’s, Grey mouth and Hokitika.—Advt.

A great misfortune which a farmer experienced by sending his bull to the butcher instead of retaining the animal for breeding purposes was mentioned at the Stratford Jersey Club’s annual dinner by Mr M. J. Dawson, of the Dairy Division of the Department of Agriculture (states an exchange). The mistake occurred through the value of testing being overlooked. The hull in question had been considered as of little use as a sire, but just recently four daughters completed a test with an average production of 020 lb. per cow. The incident went to show that in all cases a hull’s worth should he proved before condemning it to the slaughter house.