THE PEACEFUL COW

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 50, 21 May 1927, Page 20 (Supplement)

THE PEACEFUL COW

SOME THAT PAY OTHERS WHICH DON’T The cow next to the dove, is the emblem of peace. It is hard to disturb her serenity. But the cow-man, especially in mass, is the most turbulent animal in creation. Those who have attended a meeting of dairy factory suppliers will bear out this statement. The chairman of directors of the company is nearly always the recipient of highly sarcastic comments which are more suggestive of a mule kick than a rapier thrust. At Ruawai, which is an idyllic settlement in the North—far from the madding crowd —a meeting of dairy suppliers was held the other day. The chairman evidently scented trouble, and did not want the public of New Zealand to be regaled with an account of it, so he ruled that the Press be excluded. This opened the flood-gates and after a sharp struggle he was forced to compromise by allowing the reporter to be present provided the report were submitted to him. From the account so edited it ap pears that the proceedings were pretty tame after all. It was not at Ruawai, but in another place that the speaker was explaining how there were some cows that pay handsomely and some that don’t pay so well, when the sad-looking village grocer, whose accounts were much in arrear, called out, “Yes, and there are some ‘Cows’ in this room that never pay at all! ”