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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 78, 27 December 1926, Page 3

Some idea of tbe milking capacity of ewes may be gauged from the case related by Dr. C. J. Reakes the other day in the course of a conversation with a "Southland Daily News’’ representative. At Ranfurly, where the department is carrying on an investigation into the causes of lamb mortality, a Romney cross paddock ewe that bad just lost »er lamb was locked up in a pen overnight so that a sample of her milk could be collected for analysis. When the ewe was milked by hand next morning she yielded over a quart of milk for the one milking. If we had dairy cows that would yield correspondingly on a weight for weight basis we would hoar of some phenomena] yields.

"Secondary school work is a very serious matter for the average girl and makes a great demand on her energies,” said Miss E. M. Johnston, head mistress of the Auckland Girls’ Grammar School, nt the prize-giving ceremony (reports the "New Zealand Herald”). "I feel, therefore. that while a. girl is at school other interests should, as far as possible, be kept in the background. Growing girls cannot, for instance, do satisfactorily the work that is required of them in secondary schools, where n high standard must he attained, without risking the serious impairment of their health. Tho study of music for recreational purposes—even examinations in music if they can bo i ikon in a "irl’s stride—are not open to these objections, but anything hevond this the secondary school girl should not attempt.”