NOTES AND COMMENTS
The Blessings We Enjoy. , We sometimes wonder whether the men who are on the land in New Zealand ever count tlfeir blessings, and whether, as the hymnology has it, they can "name them, one by one." For, despite the slump, there are privileges and blessings over here that farmers in other lands do not. so consistently enjoy. In Canada, for instance, the land -is frozen and snow covered for three or four months in the year, so that it cannot be worked. Recent cabled news has told us the difficulties under which farmers work in New South. Wales. To-day's news' says 'that rats have now invaded.the fields and stacks to finish off the evil'done by rabbits and mice. What are the plagues of New Zealand ? There are none but human self-made worries or troubles—which rarely happen,
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4576, 29 April 1922, Page 2
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