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Shannon News, 24 May 1927, Page 2

“Blackberry is one of the worst weeds we have, and it is rapidly taking charge of a large area throughout New Zealand. If something is not done about it in the near future, our principal exports will be farmers and black‘berry jam.”—Mr C. C. Jackson (Mastertonj at the Farmers’ Union Conference. “He must have been a good shot, for he put a .303 bullet clean through a wire less than half an inch in diameter, from a distance of 50 or 60 feet.” So said Mr 1. R. Robinson, chief electrical engineer, in describing, at the Levin Lunch Club yesterday, how one of the only two breaks in the Department’s transmission lines had oecuvrred. The other break occurred through contact of a ware-with a dead tree.