BIG GOAT FARM.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 360, 15 February 1937, Page 5

BIG GOAT FARM.

Foresters Make Fun Of Poverty Bay. Press Association—Copyright. Gisborne, February 14. Goals kept on many of the farms between Napier and Gisborne to keep flov.’n blackberry, amused de|egates to th© conference of the Wellington district of the Ancient Order of Foresters. At a gathering in their honour, visiting delegates made fun of these animals, asserting tha.t there was an 80-mile-long .goat farm to the south of Gisborne and that the East Coast railway was being constructed to take the skins to market. Bro. H. Grone, Marton, said they had to pass through a goat farm 80 mi let' long to get to Gisborne. Mr G. E. Taylor, Wellington, said the visitors had come to a wonderful town in a wonderful climate over wonderful hills and through herds of wonderful goats. (Laughter). Some of the visitors wished to know Whether the railway was being built through thote hills merely to transport the goat skins away. However, Gisborne was truly a wonderful dis trict. He had read in the papers that 300,000 sheep were going out of the district this summer, and yet many, many thousands were left.