Profit on Show.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 December 1940, Page 4

Profit on Show.

A net profit of £371 was macle by the Southland Agricultural and Pastoral Association on the summer show held on December 10 and 11. Cycling Popular.

In pairs, threes and fours, cyclists, all having haversacks and bags strapped around their machines, passed through Masterton yesterday. On the Mount Bruce Road there were a particularly large number going on to Palmerston North. Doubtless petrol restrictions had a bearing on the position. The men and women cyclists looked sun-burnt and brown. Few Horsemen on Farms.

The small proportion of farm workers who were able to ride a horse was remarked on by members of Appeal Board of the Christchurch Manmower Committee. One employer, appealing on behalf of a farm hand, said that although the property was large, there were no horses on it, and he doubted whether the farm hand could ride Many such men could not ride a horse, he said, but most of them seemed able to ride motor-cycles. Poisoned by Weed Killer.

After discussion of its liability to pay the value of a cow which had. dice after eating footpath grass which a council employee had sprayed with weed-killer. the Waimam County Council decided to meet the owner s claim—£ls for the cow and £3 for veterinary expenses. The council decided that the payment should be borne bv the county as a whole but that on any future occasion it would be the responsibility of the riding if the weed-killed were used. Nazi Propaganda.

Big Ben. according to Nazi propagadists. struck 13 one night, “much to the terror of superstitious Londoners, who saw in it an omen of the destruction of their city. Yet 13 is a very poor performance in comparison with Big Ben's achievement in 1861 when he rtruck a hundred in succession, through some ill-advised experiments with 'his winding mechanism. That was just before the death of the Prince Consort, and it was not unnatural that popular imagination should interpret the first event as an omen of the second. Again when Big Ben stopped in 1866 through faulty lubrication the superstitious saw in it a warning of the failure of Gladstone Home Rule Bill, and the Bill was indeed rejected shortly afterwards.

In today's issue will be found the Railway Department's special train arrangements for the New Year holidays. Special facilities are provider' for visitors to the races at Tau'.’.crc nikav. cn January 1 and 2.