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Shannon News, 2 October 1923, Page 4

“What's the country coming to?” exclaimed Mr. J. B. Thomson when offering a line of springing heifers at a clearing sale in the Carterton district. “We have,” he said, “a paternal Government that is spending ia lot om money in the encouragement of dairying. Experts are sent round to lecture to you farmers, and it seems so much waste of money. Here we are stuck at £3 15s for springing heifers that no dairy farmer should be ashamed of, and one might well ask “What's the country coming to?” Even after this spirited oration the heifers were knocked down at £3 15s per head. The suspension of Mahomet's coffin between heayen and earth was recalled in the experience of not a few who happened to be in the lifts when the electric current failed in the Auckland city on Friday morning (remarks the Auckland Star). No warning of a coming mishap was given and the elevators in the various buildings came to a standstill wherever they happened to be and had to wait until the power was restored. Consequently a number of people were caught in inconvenient positions between two floors and were held prisoners in the cage until the defect in the current was repaired. In one instance a business man was held in durance for over an hour in a very dark well, relieved by the feeble beams of light which filtered through an extremely dirty window. Needless + o say he had exhausted every topic of conversation with the liftman and his own patience into the bargain by the time the elevator was able to continue its interrupted descent to the ground | ioor.