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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 259, 2 August 1928, Page 3

“One of those ewes is down and is smothering” observed a farmer at a Blenheim stock sale, indicating a pen. which had just been cold at what the auctioneer considered a low price (says the "Marlborough Express”). “It must have heard the price and fainted I” be retorted amid laughter. On a recent occasion when a visiting Auckland Magistrate was on a trip to Bluff he tramped to the signal station ou Bluff hill (says the “Southland News”). The visitors’ book was produced and he signed bis name, adding the letters SAI. Another parly did ‘the same fry the day after ami was shown the signature. lie was informed by the keeper flint lie had bad :i colleague up the previous daj—the signal master from Auckland. Thus the confusion of. the. letters.