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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 3258, 28 September 1928, Page 4

Making wattle hurdles, not long ago *- regarded as a dying industry in Britain, is having a remarkable, revival, as the hurdles are being put to a number of new uses, such as making summer houses, sheep pens, and fencings. as well as windshields for gardens and poultry runs. A cow that ran amok while being driven along a Hawke's Bay road the other evening caused consternation to motorists who were in the vicinity at the time. After chasing the drover and others who tried to subdue, it, it turned its attention to the cars as they came along and charged each one in turn. Some of them had the headlights smashed, and a bakery van was so damaged that it had to be abandon- _-- ed and later towed back to Ormondville. The cow eventually got down into a stream, afterwards escaping into a farmer's property, where it was left to recover from its "brain-storm." Some members" of the. Wanganui Chamber of Commerce think that eightpenee for a cup of tea and-a sandwich at railway refreshment rooms is; \_ffl_ "iniquitous charge." A letter from - the Railways Department, read at a . meeting of the chamber, stated that, if the price were reduced,to sixpence;; ,as suggested by the chamber, the little ~ profit that was made would be lost. The letter also stated that the charges ' made for refreshments on the New Zealand railways compared very well with" those in other parts pf the world. "If they cut the price to sixpence they'd seU 50 per cent, more," said a iftgijh ber.