Sparrows, it was stated at a recent meeting' of the Fanners’ Union in Timaru, have become so well educated in recent years that they can tell poisoned from n on-poisoned wheat, and that when they get the former they shell it, and discarding the poisoned shell, eat the grain. “ He was not an energetic worker, by any means, Your Worship,” said a witness of a labourer in the Magistrate’s Court at Christchurch. “ For instance, when he was in my employ 1 sent him out into a paddock to dig some potatoes, and it took him four days to dig two sacks. The only thing he was good at was breaking tools and implements—he was excellent at that!” /
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Putaruru Press, Volume II, Issue 59, 11 December 1924, Page 2
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117Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 Putaruru Press, Volume II, Issue 59, 11 December 1924, Page 2
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