Just a Short Story.
This story of an inventive New Zealand farmer has had considerable currency in Australia recently, atom ding to the Sydney Morning Herald. Knowing the traditional reluctance of sheep to- enter a dip, the farmer constructed a perforated steel platform ever the trough. The principle was to drive the sheep on to this, then pull a lever and plunge them into the* wash. A dozen or so neighbours called to inspect the machine and give their opinion, an interested member of the party being the farmer’s six-year-old son. hirst the- party mounted the platform to inspect. its construction. Need it he told? The six-year-old pulled the lever. For the next week the hoy’s mother used to smuggle food to him at Ids various hide-outs round the property.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 209, 19 July 1939, Page 2
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130Just a Short Story. Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 209, 19 July 1939, Page 2
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