NAMING CALVES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 282, 29 November 1938, Page 7

NAMING CALVES.

PROBLEM SOLVED. YOUTH'S BRIGHT PLAN. . HITLER AND MUSSOIJM. The international situation hae assumed amusing proportions in an Auckland suburb, which still boasts of its open spaces and farmlets. A schoolboy with an abundance of precocity has his cows for supplying the family needs and, although he does not qualify for the guaranteed price he seems to get plenty of enjoyment out of life.

In recent weeks, there have been additions to the littl* farm's stock. The first calf to arrive came at the time when four of the great Powers -were jdissecting Czechoslovakia, and the "young farmer" did not search long for a name for it. There was promptly presented to the suburb a Hitler.

There followed in due course a Mussolini and a Chamberlain. The local reign of the "dictators," however, is destined not to be long for all the calves were bulls and they are being fattened for killing.

With careful nurturing the calves are filling out daily, and interest in the neighbourhood is quickening, for there is speculation as to which of the three will be first to find its way to and the attention of the Its a neck and neck £»,■*„. . moment, but the odds .re of docile white beast £*„£. it , for iEurope splashed m W** tbß scene. was the first to *PJ*gng the progretm He is not, ** *« -