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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 4, 29 September 1933, Page 5

One has a recollection of having read poetry about the Arab and his steed, but the New South Wales Minister of Transport, Mr. M. F. Bruxner, quotes wartime experience for the assertion that Australians are the best horsemasters in the world, and the Arabs are the worst. Addressing jockey apprentices at Randwick, he said on September 11 that no fewer than 480,000 horses that left Australia were doomed never to return. They were shot when the war was over, and he had seen soldiers with tears in their eyes as though they had shot their best friends. “And,” added Mr. Bruxner, “so they had.” Referring to the picture of a thoroughbred that went right through the campaign in Palestine, he said:’“Look at that head—there isn’t anything better looking, even man or woman, anywhere. And note the intelligence.” .

“When a 2*lb. fish was opened, seven bullies in various stages of digestion were found in the stomach contents,” states a report prepared for the Fresh Water Research Committee by Mr. A. W. Parrott biologist, says the Christchurch “Press.” “Two of these small fish were alive, and one, when returned to the water, recovered sufficiently to swim away.”