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Shannon News, 12 November 1926, Page 3

A site for a high school has been giyen at Foxton by the Maori owners and has been transferred to the Education Board. One of the' peculiarities of the goat tribe is its appetite for what other animals prefer to, leave , alone. This idio-i sync racy was' mentioned at Wairoa whan the Minister -of Agriculture, wjis informed that goats will climb over a 20 foot pile of blackberry, nipping off the old tough leaves and eating back thb stalks- most effectively, meanwhile breaking down the vine by their trampling. 1 Being one of the few 'animals known to have a liking for. the hardyvine, it is, a pity, therefore, that when .the young sheets of new growth come on the stunted berry, the goat will not touch it. The period of the early, growth is the only one in-the year, during wlndi the animal prefers grass to blackberry.