"A TALE WITH A MORAL."

Matamata Record, Volume VII, Issue 586, 1 December 1924, Page 8

"A TALE WITH A MORAL."

A Te Poi resident sends us the following- verses, culled from an English paper, and which he considers appropriate to this district:— If you want to succeed at the Show, my Jad, You'll have .to get busy, I fear; You should trench all the land,, whether stiff clay or .sand, And it's now a bit late in the year. If you start in the fall o' the year, my lad, You make a good friend of Jack Frost, For land that is sour won't mend in an hour, And much of your seed will be lost. If you dig, dung, and sow in a day, my lad, Your onions won't do very well, Your carrots and beet won't be fit to eat, Your peas will be nothing but shell. For pedigree blood-red beet, my lad, Carrots lika tongues of flame, And celery tall, won't come at a call— That's one of the rules of the game. When Adam got kicked out of Eden, my lad, He had to get busy, or rot— For, thanks to his wife, he'd to dig for his life, And that's still a gardener's lot. Make an earlier start next time, my lad, If you will take a hand in the gam©, For Home, as they say, wasn't built in a day, Nor's a garden that's worthy the name. —SEAFELL.

" The robbing of employers has become shockingly common in Queensland among young people whose salaries do not permit them to live up to the demands of the circle whose company they keep," said Archbishop Duhig, addressing 300 boys whom he confirmed at St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Cathedral, Brisbane, recently. Complaints were voiced at a meeting of the Ngatea Farmers' Union regarding the cream tests by several factory suppliers, and it was decided to urge the company, through the local suppliers' committee, to appoint a fully qualified testing The opinion was expressed that there should be a qualifying examination for testers.—Hauraki Plains Gazette.