NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2688, 29 January 1924, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

A family iif Mount Ed on, Auckland, had an unpleasant experience this week. When they awakened in the morn in" they all fell heavy, and one child was found very difficult to arouse. It was not until a neighbour, who came in. exclaimed: “What a smell of gas?” that they realised there had been a serious leak during the night. A pile of dead and dying lamb* in a yard at the Ihiwera station recently caused some curiosity. A i onsignmont of about half a dozen trucks of poor, conditioned shorn lambs arrived during the day from Ford ell. After the long journey in teeming rain, the lambs were in a wretched condition, and when unloaded well over a hundred were dead or dying, and many more were in such a bad condition that it appeared unlikely they would recover.

A good story is going the rounds concerning a clerical gentleman in the Fcilding district, a staunch prohibitionist of many years' standing. On a recent occasion his Ford car went wrong and the cleric paintud the letter S along the road causing nervous ladies to lice precipitately Finally he came upon a drover with a llock of lambs. “Don’t think I'm drunk,” said the cleric, amiably. “You are drunk,” said the drover, who had been watching the car approach, “but you don’t well know it.”