Tom Brown's Days

NZ Truth, Issue 1181, 19 July 1928, Page 6

Tom Brown's Days

SO Tom Brown is leaving Hanmer Springs? Well, it will be a bit of a wrench for Tom, because, m seventeen years, he has learned to think a great deal of the place, which, so tourists 'say, is equal to any American health resort-:— arid they ought to know. But Tom's, big opportunity has come. He has been offered ,the managership of a run 1 m Blenheim, where, away from the rush and bustle of the everyday world, he will diligently teach the baalambs to form fours and march to the shearing shed. . Possessed of that type of personality generally summed up m the words, "A . fine chap," Tom Brown is quite an authority on sheep, horses and dogs. To see him working a flock is to see an artist on' the job. • Up Blenheim way, he will make friends with the same easy grace that characterized his life and work at Hanmer. Always interested m local affairs, his interest has taken the shape of doing the work no one hears about — rather than the talk. A splendid rifle shot and a skilled horseman, there's no doubt about it that Tom enjoys his leisure.