The electric light poles are a regular boon to the “cockies,” remarked a Wanganui dairy fanner to a Wanganui Herald reporter. They not only carry the wires to supply the “juiice” for power and lighting, but they also save the farmer the expense of erecting pens on the roadside for the bobby calves. All a farmer has to do is to tie his calves to the pole on the roadside and the freezing works delivery man does the rest.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5494, 30 October 1929, Page 1
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