LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 November 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

“You have a good deal to do with dogs in your line of business?” queried counsel of a witness in the Hawera court yesterday. “No! not in my business,” replied the witness with a smile which was reflected round the court He happened to be a butcher’s assistant.

In the House of Representatives .yesterday, a reply by the Minister of Agriculture to a. question from Mr. AY. G. Glenn (Rangitikei) indicated that the Government would proceed cautiously in its programme of importing stud stock from England, owing to the outbreak of foot and mouth disease, which the Minister stated was serious. It is not likely that importations would proceed under these circumstances (states our Wellington correspondent). A very amusing story was told at the Methodist Church Synod Dy the Rev. Mr. Haddon, when speaking 1 of the value of the ladies in church work. According to an old Maori legend the earth was made for men only, the women being confined to heaven. The God of Air thought he would send the women to the earth as the guests of the men. The latter were impressed by their usefulness and beauty, but were worried by the ease with which their wings enabled them to evade the sti’onger sex. A council was held, at which it was decided to clip the' wings of the fair ones, and thus keep them on the earth, where they have remained ever since.