NEWS AND NOTES.
One of Eltham’s sporty townsmen say's that he is willing to make a bet, asking only trifling odds, that not one of the Eltham Second Division men drawn in the ballot will ever go into camp. He claims to have studied their condition, and says that not one of them is sound. They are all either girth-galled, spavined, broken-winded, eurby-hocked, or gone in the knees. Well, time will tell the value of his opinion. The leading stations in the Hawkes Bay district have contracted with .buyers who are believed to represent the Meat Trust to sell the whole of their bull calves for the next four stock-raisers in all parts of the province have contracted to sell their heifer calves for a similar period at varying rates. Sometimes prices as high as £8 at two months, and sometimes £7 at a week old are said to have been offered.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1754, 20 November 1917, Page 4
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152NEWS AND NOTES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1754, 20 November 1917, Page 4
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