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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4391, 17 March 1922, Page 1

A story which coines from the Hauraki Plains, though amusing, gives an indication that, cattle are not greatly valued at the present ruling prices. A farmer was driving some cattle to a recent stock sale when a bull wandered from . one of the straight and narrow 'roads so common on the Plains, and. floundeied into a drain. Evidently estimating that he would not be recompensed for the trouble of extricating the animal from the ditch, the farmer offered it to another man, who at the time did not. have an opportunity of taking charge of the gift. In the meantime the bull had managed to climb out of its slushy surroundings, and another inan, hearing that) the animal was without an owner, took J charge and put it into a paddock, from which it wandered into another } farmer’s property. The latter, hot wanting it on his farm, turned it out on to the road, where the ranger'found it and took it! to the pound. Now nobody wishes to own the animal, as the . impounding expenses will have to be paid.