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Shannon News, 18 July 1922, Page 4

A local dairyman puts the position of the man on the land in quite a novel way. “Unfortunately,” he said, “the cow has only four teats. One ol them I have to milk for the shipping ring, one for the crowd that collects the other charges on the cheese from the time it leaves our factory till it is sold in London, one to pay for the cost of manufacture, and the remaining teat provides me and my family with a bare existence.”

“There must be some Jonah that is swallowing up a lot of money,” said a councillor at the Waitotara County Council’s meeting. He was somewhat mixed in his metaphors, but he had solid ideas on what he was trying to get at. He cast a very suspicious eye on the motor waggon, which he declared was . too expensive to run and did a great deal of damage to the roads.

The Feilding Star says: We met a man in Feilding to-day who met a man from Wellington who knows a man who saw a letter received by r another man from Sir Joseph Ward in which the latter stated that he had made up his mind to stand lor a Wellington seat at the elections in December next. Is it a case of Luke out for his opponent, will Wright be wrong, will it he a new man, or will it be another denial? '