NEAR AND FAR

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 142, 8 February 1932, Page 4

NEAR AND FAR

Three Milkings a Day A Hdwke's Bay farmer recently returned from his first visit to England, expressed himself much impressed with the possibilities of dairying und'er New Zealand conditions if carried out on the more intensive^Jiries whicli have develop'ed in the older .'pb.uritries of the world. He pointed out that in some parts bf England dairymen had materially increased their output by miikiiig three times a day, and contended that what could be accomplished in .England could he equally suC=* cessfuiiy dohb in the iDominion. It is, hbwever, questionable whether the 'dairymen bf this country, comments the' Napier Tel'egraph, would Avillingly tie theinselves down to the drudgtry which niust be rbpresented by a system of three milkings a day. A Ceritriry Ago. They did it thus, as reported in the Sydney Mornirig Herald a centiiry ago Police Incidents: Charlotte Welsh, insolent to her mistress, and insisting ripon havirig hfandy in her Chfistmas pudding, was sent to the factory for six wceks. Thomas Tiildall, John Pigot and Miehael Fox? charged with doing everything coritrary tb their master's oi'ders, plariting cuttings of vines up'~ side down*, aiid building one side of a house 18 iriches Higher than the othefs, and divers other frolics, were sentenced, the former, as ririgleader to 50 lashes, the other two to 25 lashes each. Wanted — a Mussolini. "Democracy appears to have faiied lamentably in every country and has given birth in succession to socialism; c'ommuhisrii and anarchy," stated Mi*. H. R. Jenlrins, of Auckland, formerly M.P. for Parnell, speaking to a Waikato Tiriies reporter. "I thirilc it was Gicero who said something- about the "servants becoining masters. Italy seems to be the only country making good progress, and yet she is ohe of the poorest countries from the productive point bf view. There is li'd douht that if New Zealand had a Mussolini, things would soon be straightened out."