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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4673, 12 March 1924, Page 2

Side by side in beds in one of the wards at Hie Wanganui public hospital are two veterans, both well past the allotted three score and ten years (says the Chronicle). Both were born in the same street in London, and although they "ent different ways in their lives they arc once more reunited, and pass the long hours by recounting incidents ot llieir youth.

A freak in the form of a puppy with six legs was born among a litter of seven spaniels at Christchurch (relates a southern exchange). The little ai.inial was perfectly formed n the lipper part of its body, but th-' lower part had two pairs of hind legs, which were facing each other, and which, owing to their position, would have prevented the puppy I'iom walking. The body altogether was about three- times as large as tl.at of the other puppies, and when held in an upright position wa,s not unlike the shape of a pear. The puppy, with which its mother would have nothing to do, was kept alive for a while by means of a feeding bottle.

Chaigcs of an unusual nature were heard at the Police Court, Feilding, on Tuesday of last week, when Henry Simpson, cream collector for the Cheltenham Co-operative Dairy Sompany, was charged with conspiring with suppliers to defraud the company by falsifying cream tests. The suppliers joined in the charge were Otto Kreegher, charged in respect of £336, J. Thomassen £B9, R. Gavigan £44, A. M. Taylor £474, and Wright. In all the cases except that of Wrigh’’s, admitted hafvjlii.g. supplied false tests. Wright’s case was not reached when the Court adjourned. The other accused, wlu pleaded not guilty to criminal charges, were committed for trial.