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Matamata Record, Volume VI, Issue 474, 24 September 1923, Page 4

" No cow should be branded or dehorned in the milking bails," said Mr. M. Shaw at a herd-testing meeting at Matamata on Thursday. "The branding with irons hurts the cows and they do not forget. They usually became nervous and refused to let the milk down properly." Sir George Higginson is 07 this year, but the veteran general is still active and alert. Though the doyen of the Grenadiers, he is not the oldest, army officer, this distinction belonging to General Sir Archibald Anson, who is a few weeks his senior. Sir George can remember as a child being patted on the head by George IV., and he has a fund of reminiscence, but perhaps the most interesting thing about him is that he is the original or the mounted officer in Lady Butler's painting, " The Roll Call." Tie was a very philanthropic old gentleman, so that when he was waylaid by a very down-at-heel individual while on his way to his office, who begged for the price of some food, his heart was at once touched. He accordingly sent the man down to a restaurant he knew with a note to the elfcct that they were to give the man whatever ho wanted, and lie would call in later and pay the bill. On his way home he called into the restaurant to settle up. " I hope you gave him all he asked for," he said to the manager. "Oh, yes," answered the latter with a grill, "he had nine beers and a cigar."