NEAR AND FAR

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 110, 31 December 1931, Page 4

NEAR AND FAR

■' C srful Farmer Still One Cheerful Farmer "My wool is the best I have shorn for years, my lambs are in splendid condition and my cattle are ds prime as ever I have seen cattle — in fact, everything in the. garden. would be lovely except for the hash that .xerica and France between them have made of market prices," said a well-known King Country farmer to a reporter recently. Value Of Examinatioris "I'll tell you a story which will show you how little value there is in examinations," said the Bishop.,pf y/aiapu during an addxess at the prize-giving of the Hastihgs High School. "Once upon a time &■ boy had to write an essay on on'e of two mathematical problems which we shall call A and B. He wrote an essay on B, and it was such a poor essay on B that he was awarded a scholarship for writing an essay on A." The laughter which greeted the Bishop's anecdote renewed when he added: "1 happened to know that the story is true, becaiise I happeh to be the boy." Insurarsce Against Slump "I have got only teri acres of land, a couple of cows,- a pig or twoj poultry, fruit and vegetablesj and I own the lot and I can carfy ori no matter how bad the slump becomes, and that is more than some of the big farmers can say," said a small farmer when recently speaking to a Taihape "Times" reporter. He added that he considered that small allotments had been proved by the slump to offer the gteatest security against destitution. Determined Bridegroom A bridegroom, whose bride-to-be was under age had an exciting time in making a dash from Christchurch last week to a mining district on the West Coast to obtain the signature of the bride's father to a consent order. The ceremony was arranged for Thursday, and on the Tuesday afternoon he decided that the only course was to make the journey. He obtained the assistance of a dirttrack rider to catch the only available train at a distant station; and, after travelling* by motor cycle, train and taxi, found the father in a West Coast mine. No time was lost in getting the signature, but, in the meantime, the bus that would connect with the train for Christchurch had left. The bridegroom covered the 15 miles on foot, caught the train, and arrived in Christchurch on Thursday morning.