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Shannon News, 19 June 1928, Page 3

A fact specially worthy of note Was mentioned by the headmaster of the Napier Boys'' High School (Mr WVT. Foster) to the Board of Governors last evening, and that was that three senior boys ndt in last term's roll have this term returned to the school because of their inability to secure permanent employment, i

A Wanganui farmer recently purchased at the sale yards a line of some 300 ewes in lamb, which had been trucked . from the Manutahi district. On the short drive from the yards to the purchaser's farm two ewes died on the road, and finding another six dead the following morning, he immediately invoked the assistance of the stock inspector, Mr Cleland, and the Government veterinarian, Mr Thompson, both gentlemen stating that death was due to ragwort* poisoning. The ewes continued dying,. and up to the present time some 50 have been lost, while many of the remainder have every appearance of doing likewise. The farmer in question desires to state that the auctioneers sold the sheep in absolutely good faith and he cannot speak too highly of the treatment he received '*, from the firm. At the same time he considers it only fair to his fellow farmers to warn them hot to purchase sheep without some guarantee that they have not come off ragwort country. Many farmers do not, apparently, fully appreciate the danger of ragwort and it may be that only hard experience will awaken them.