He Found the Bull.

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 221, 16 August 1939, Page 3

He Found the Bull.

A story is told of a fanner's son out looking lor a bull in the Merino Downs district in West Otago. He climbed up wluit lie thought was a snow Drift, but came down quicker than lie went up when he found that it was not a drift but the bull on which he had been standing. Guaranteed Price. '•1 come from the cowyard the same as you Taranaki people. I’m satisfied with the guaranteed price,-” said Mr. F. Dii id ley. Gisborne, speaking at tho drill tier of the New Zealand .federation of Cage Bird Clubs in New Plymouth. “Are you satisfied with the petrol tax,” asked Mr. F. D. Frost, M.P.. amid laughter.—-Taranaki Herald u New Zealand’s Snowline. Fueller their heavy winter inatttle of snow the mountains of New Zealand giva an unusual impression of height wlu'ii seen from the air at|,preseiit. This is slated to he most noticeable in the South Island, where the lolly peaks of the Southern Jrlps always appear higher than they rea the air traveller. Even under normal seasonal conditions the snowline in the South Island is at least: «HX)()lt. lower than in the European Alps, and visitors from Hu rope have found it difficult to adjust their ideas of height to these changed conditions.