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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 116, 14 February 1928, Page 11

Another feat in transportation of stock per road has to be recorded (says the “Poverty Bay Herald"). A motor-lorry loaded with 30 rams from Mr. Mathews’ farm, Wairongomai, Featherston, left that property at 10 a.m. one day and discharged its load at Taumata Station, Here, at 4.30 p.m. the next Sunday. The vehicle, a six-wheeled machine, was driven by Mr. W. Davidson, of Poverty Bay, and the travelling time is vouched for by Mr. E. Semmens, manager of Taumata Station, -who accompanied the shipment of rams. The stock arrived in Poverty Bay full of spirit, and in the best condition. Throughout the Wairarapa and Hawke’s Bay districts, the lorries are offering strenuous competition to the railways, and special trains have been allocated by the Railways Department for the convenience of stock dealers to meet the competition.

While the fire at Cave Bros.’ mill was raging the other morning, the continuous shriek ot the mill whistle gave rise to much curiosity (says tho "Poverty Bay Herald"). People resident at some distance heard the whistle, and some jumped to the conclusion that a celebration was in progress, naturally associating the occasion in some way with tho history of the Tasman flight. The explanation of the long continued shriek is simple enough; the whistle was operated by a wire which led down through the roof to a hook in a heavy beam inside the building. Early in the course of the fire, another beam may have sagged on tho slack wire, and thus released the steam. The whistle did not become silent until about an hour later, when, the fire was practically out. Rather curiously, the last occasion on which Cave Bros.’ mill was burned out was marked by a similar long blast on the whistle, which in that day was a good deal more powerful.

The house-fly, which usually flourishes during dry spells, is far less of a pest, in Auckland this summer than he has been for many years past (says the “Star”). Housewives throughout the city and suburbs have note! the fact.