A READER’S MEDLEY
IMPORTED PIGS Among the first cargo to be unloaded from the Wanganella at Auckland was a consignment of pedigree Tamworth pigs. All hail, O pig I we welcome thee, and welcome thy posterity. Let those who are inclined to mock remember that our earliest stock (long, long before the pioneer or whaler thought of coming here) • was duly entered in the log as nothing by plain pig, or hog. Alas, that happy distant date we simply don’t commemorate —yet Captain Cook was not too big to land and liberate the pig. A man could nearly take to drink or weep salt bitter tears to think that people do not care a fig for that fine animal, the pig. Yet though when people pass your sty as like as not they pass you by, you’re not, 0 pig from o’er the sea, ’unhonoured or unsung by me. —D.G.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 112, 5 February 1935, Page 7
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150A READER’S MEDLEY Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 112, 5 February 1935, Page 7
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