NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4506, 18 September 1930, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

It is reported that Tui Morgan has retired from Ihe motor cycle racing track.

XleniU dredging year in and year out has greatly improved the state of the New Plymouth har-

Disputes arising out of proposed i eductions of wages caused the less of 2,825,»0(» working days in the first five months of this year in Britain. The total loss for 1 tig!) was 7.21)4,000 working days.

A Maori mat once used by Queen Aotcn, the second wife of King Tawhiao, who was at one time a king of the Maoris, succeeding his father in 1860, has just, been purchased by the Canterbury Museum.

Mi*. .). Mackey, a farmer in South Taranaki, has just suffered tin* loss of a very valuable cow under peculiar circumstances. A day oi: two ago, when feeding out ensilage, he laid the hay knife down on i in* ground outside the fence which surrounds the stack, and unfortunately forgot it. On the . following morning lie had the

misfortune of seeing one of his cows fatally injured, and atI hough he could not determine the cause at the lime, lie eventually II need the matter through the trail of blood which the cow had left in her endeavour to get out of harm’s way. The cow had evidently trodden on the handle of the hay knife, causing it to turn upwards and the sharp point to penetrate the animal's stomach. The occurrence is one of those accidents which may happen once in a thousand years.

iliidineclly, the enterprise of a boy in getting for himself work of*

-mine sort to do, instead of waiting’ innoiivcly, served to secure for i.nii a position which he now holds as a junior with a local body not ini- from Christchurch. The local body invited applications for the vacant- position, preferably from bo.vs who had matriculated. Ultimately, three or four were selecI (:, I and Interviewed as the most l>> umising. The boy who got the job told his future employer that be had been at the Christchurch Boys’ High School for the past iour years, and left last year. "What have you been doing since then/" he was asked. “Well, I couldn't get anything else to do so 1 took a job delivering on a breadcart-.” This weighed so much with the ohicial conducting the interview that it helped the boy a lot ill the decision .which provided him with the mure suitable work that .he now has.

if any New Zealand farmer possessed a herd of cows whose milk, for six weeks of the year, was so thick that it could not be drunk, he would he a celebrity in the land, and the fame of Iris herd would be bruited abroad. This is

whal is claimed for some 15 Friesian cows, lbe “Belled Friesian Herd,’’ in Holland. Their milk (luring this period can he used only tor butler and cheese. They are jet black in colour, except for one patch of white, in almost the same position on each, which looks ,1 list as (bough a white blanket had been thrown over them. Mr. It. J. Ainvyl, manager in New Zealand

and Australia for Thomas Cook and Sou, who was much taken with the intensive cultivation practised in Holland, says a farm o! 50 acres there will carry 30 cows, as well as a few sheep and pigs, and will provide four crops of hay it year. Switzerland, he says, is not quite so good. On the same acreage there only 25 cows can. be supported, and there’ are only three crops of hay in the year.