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Putaruru Press, Volume II, Issue 25, 3 April 1924, Page 3

“What did the doctor tell you?” asked the opposing- counsel of a witness in a compensation case heard at the Arbitration Court, Palmerston North. “ He told me I had chronic gastritis, chronic appendicitis, and chronic rheumatism,” stated the witness. “And what else?” queried counsel. “He said I was, in his opinion, a general break-up,” was the astonishing reply. “ A farmer said to me that lime was no good, and showed me a paddock where he had limed a patch,” said Mr W. J. McCullough, Government agricultural instructor, at Masterton, some days ago. “ That patch was bare, while there was a fair growth on the rest of the paddock. The reason was that he had put stock on the pasture, and the sheep had made immediately for the sweet grass on the limed patch, eating it bare. But the farmer did not realise this.’'