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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 28, 28 October 1926, Page 4

The monthly meeting of the Boys’ Institute Management Committee was held on October 18, Mr. Geo, A. Troup in the chair. The directors’ report stated that the games room shield competition was at present beipg eagerly contested by six teams. The 11D-. rary was being very well patronised. Having other than climatic features to contend against, a lad attending St. Patrick’s School, Masterton, was determined to acquaint the examiner of the handicap under which he grew his plot pf mangolds in a juvenile club competition (says the “Wuirarapa Daily Times”). and on his record sheet, im stead of depicting in sketch the progress of plant life under cultivation, he sketched the seedling just above the ground being attacked by birds, in a later stage the young bulb being nibbled by a rabbit, apd then the fullgrown root being munched by a cow. An amusing incident was related by a speaker at a conference pf dairy factory managers in Wanganui recently, He was discussiiig taints evident ip suppliers’ milk (remarks the “Chronicle”), and said some factories had adopted the expedient of sending the supplier concerned a note stating the trouble, apd what was believed to be the cause. One factory used printed forms for this purpose, and on two or three doepmepts sent to one supplier the theory, “dirty milking machines,” was written. Subsequently it was discovered that the supplier did not possess machines.