MISCELLANEOUS.

Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 10 October 1919, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Poverty Bay 'Farmers’ Meat Company has purchased a British-built steamer, completed last year, with a carrying capacity of 10.S00 tons. The vessel will be provided with facilities for carrying 125,000 carcases of frozen meat as well as other cargo. “If you saw a man fishing for tomcats with a hook and line you would probably consider it cruelty,” remarked Mr H. S. S. Kyle in an address delivered at the annual meeting of the Christchurch Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; “yet it is not considered cruel to catch fish in that way.” In the course of his remarks Mr Kyle pointed out that it did not always mean that a lame animal was in pain. Regarding the transport of cattle, he expressed the opinion that it was not necessarily cruel to deprive them of food or water. In the case of cattle on shipboard, it was found that they were apparently too frightened to chew the cud. To give cattle water on a two days’ train journey was likelv to accentuate digestive troubles.

~ :1 Auckland ‘‘Herald” reporter tried to interview Admiral Jellicoe at Rotorua, and gleaned a scanty crop of monosyllables. In reporting the failure to his paper said: An unnsual feature of the interview was that Lady Jellicoe was present, and the emphatic observations which she made upon certain matters which affect the strength and the natty of Empire, were in sharp contrast to her husband’s reticence. When asked if her remark as to what she nould do with disloyalists in a certain country —not New Zealand—might be reported, she said she did not mind a bi.t7 and the Admiral laughed gailv. It was obvious that if Lady Jellicoe had occupied her husband’s shoes the result of the interview would have proved extremely interesting. It stay bo remarked that Lady Jellicoe does net believe la half s&easuies, . . .. - ;