GENERAL NEWS Barbara Has A Great Record

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 October 1948, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS Barbara Has A Great Record

A veteran cow at Tikimutu, Auckland province, this week, celebrated her thirty-second birthday and her twenty-ninth calf is expected in about a month’s time. This (states the New Zealand Herald) is claimed as a record for both age and number of calves and no rival has arisen to challenge these achievements! The cow, called Barbara, calved for the first time in October, 1918. Since then she has repeated the performance nearly every year. She was born on the property of Mr S. P. Miller, Hikimutu, but in recent years has been pastured on the farm of. a neighbour, Mr C. J. Pittams. Still in good health and condition, Barbara shows every indication of continuing her career for some time yet. She has never had any special treatment and runs with other cows.

Farmer injured A broken leg was suffered by a farmer, Charles William Fleming, of Koiterangi, on Wednesday, when the tractor which lie was driving turned over, pinning him beneath it. He was admitted to the Westland Hospital and his condition was reported to be satisfactory.

Car Overturns Two women occupants of a small car, which overturned at the intersection of Bright and Cardwell streets, Cobden, early last evening, escaped with a shaking and minor bruising. The car apparently skidded in loose material on the corner and rolled completely over; being considerably damaged. Few Whitebait

Following the promising “run” of whitebait in Grey district rivers on Thursday, catches have since been much poorer. Constant fishing yesterday resulted in few catches above eight pints, while this morning’s catches were even smaller. The ranks of whitebaiters who lined the banks of the Grey river yesterday were considerably reduced this morning.

Westport Crossing Smash When crossing the railway line at the Bentham street crossing at Westport at 6.30. o’clock last evening, a car driven by Mr S. Milligan, of Cape Foulwind, was struck by a cost ti'uck which was being shunted to the Charleston coal ramp.' The car the two passengers, Mr T. Dornan and Mrs H. Hands, both of Cape Foulwind, escaped serious injury. The driver was not injured. The car was extensively damaged.

King’s Opening of Parliament Some members of Parliament have already received numerous requests from constituents for seats in the House of Representatives for the opening of Parliament next year by the King. This was mentioned in the House yesterday by Mr C. M. Bowden (Opposition, Karori), who urged that the complete programme for the Royal tour should be announced. The Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr W. E. Parry) said he would announce the full programme as soon as possible.

Printers’ Award The Conciliation Council has been considering claims by the New Zealand Printing Trades Employees Union for a new award. During the proceedings the employers’ representatives said that, in view of the general application to the Court of Arbitration on wages, they were not prepared to accede to the claims for increases in the present scale. Some amendments to existing award provisions were approved by the council. The sitting adjourned for four weeks to allow the union representatives to give further consideration to proposals for payment for week-end work in newspaper offices.—(P.A.) Room for More

A question being asked today was widely asked 30 years ago—namely, what was the use of studying to be an accountant when there were already too many of them, said the president of the New Zealand Society of Accountants, Mr F. H. Harris', Wellington, addressing members of the Taranaki branch of the society at New Plymouth. He answered the question when he showed that there were 1760 accountants within the society 31 years ago, while today there were 4200, of whom 1100 were public accountants. “There can be no suggestion that our profession is a ‘closed corporation,’ ” said Mr Harris. “I can say that every student who shows sufficient aptitude is assured of a welcome to the society.”

Air Trip for Baboon The Wellington Zoo’s most precocious monkey, E'ifi, a young female Arabian baboon, may have a return air trip from Wellington to Nelson. The popularity of two Wellmgton monkeys sent recently by ah' to Blenheim had been watched closely in the rival city of Nelson, said the curator of the zoo (Mr C. J. Cutler) yesterday. A fete to gain funds to improve the Nelson beach was to be held by the Nelson Chamber of Commerce on Labour Day and the chamber was anxious to have the monkeys in attendance. The two monkeys were so popular in Blenheim that the town was reluctant to part with them and the Nelson Chamber of Commerce had appealed to the Wellington Zoo for two more monkeys. This would deprive the zoo of too many of its trained tame monkeys, Mr Cutler said, and he had agreed to lend his own particular pet, Fifi, to Nelson, providing she was returned the same day to the zoo. If Nelson is unable to obtain two monkeys from Blenheim Fili will fly to Nelson m the morning of Labour Day and return in the afternoon. Fifi was so used to humans that it was impossible to put her in a cage with other monkeys, said Mr Cutler. She refused to sleep anywhere else but m his house, and for this reason she would have to be returned from Nelson the same day.—(P.A.)

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