TWENTY YEARS AGO

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 32, Issue 3292, 23 July 1943, Page 6

TWENTY YEARS AGO

HOSPITAL AT WAIHI VALLEY JERSEY CLUB ' I WARNING ISSUED TO FARMERS (From the Hauraki Plains Gazette of July 21, 1923.) The* Mayor (Mr W. M. Wallnutt) and town clerk (Mr J. J. Ritchie) of Waihi, visited Paeroa ■ on Monday and interviewed Mr----W. Marshall (Mayor) with a view—to soliciting public sympathy and support for the Waihi Hospital campaign. The visitors were courteously received and Mr Marshall undertook to place the matter before the Paeroa Council and to assist canvassers from Waihi as far as possible. The president of the Thames Valley Jersey Cattle Club at the annual meeting on Wednesday last counselled farmers to be careful when buying pedigree cattle and make certain that the cattle bore the registered brand of the vendor and also to ascertain if the stock had been actually registered in the registration books of the association. Instances were 'known where farmers had purchased alleged pedigree stock from the herd of a well-known breeder on the bare word of mouth of the vendor. On investigation being made it had been proved that the cattle thus bought were not pedigree and had no claims to be and had never been on the property of the pedigree stock breeder.