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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 307, 26 September 1929, Page 5

, “ I think,” said Mr. H. D. Vickery in the course of an address on “ Some Aspects of Income Taxation ” at a meeting of Wellington accountants, “ that it is very regrettable that we should ever hav6 dropped the income tax for farmers.” (Hear, hear.) Mr. Vickery said he thought the income tax was infinitely better than the land tax, which, after all, was an uneconomic rent. After what had happened recently in Parliament he thought that the farmers, or the majority of them, were realising that their former advocacy was a mistake. Now was the time, said Mr. Vickery, to turn round and tell the farmers to pay income tax.

A horse managed to hold up a passenger train on the main south line recently (reports the, Christchurch Times). The animal had strayed on .to the cattlestop at a crossing near Fairfield and got its feet wedged. The early morning train from Christchurch to Ashburton approached, and as the horse did not move the driver made an emergency stop. The animal’s predicament was seen, but despite the efforts of the passengers and the crew of the train it could not be shifted for the time being. Motors were obtained, and the passengers were sent on to Ashburton by car. After an hour and a half’s work the horse was released and the train was able to proceed.

“It is no good saying the shags do good—they are the best poachers we have in North Wairarapa,” stated the curator of the Mpsterton hatchery (Mr. T. G. Miller) in a report to the Wellington Acclimatisation Society. “ I have received a shag shot on the Waingawa near Masterton,” he said. “ The bird contained one trout, 15 h inches from nose to tail. Shags are hard to get. People say they do more good than harm by eating up the eels. Well, they do not' •seem to care about the Wairarapa eels as long as we provide tasty food for them. There is a big mob of shags at work on the Waingawa nearly every day, but the open country makes it hard to get them.” The chairman (Mr. L. O. H. Tripp) intimated that arrangements were being made for an investigation and the collection of data as to the food of shags.