“On the list of thankless tasks that of school committeemen must stand high ” said Mr. E. W. Massey, at the Morrinsville High School prize-giving when responding on behalf of the staff to a vote of thanks called for bv the chairman of the school committee. Most people took the work of the school committee for granted, he added. It has been estimated that the grasslands of the British Empire carry 500,000,000 head of live stock. It would not be hard to prove that grass is the most important “cron” in the world. In fact it has been said that “ While grass does not produce any fruit in earth or air, still, should the harvest oerish for a single year, famine would depopulate the world.” total destruction.
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Matamata Record, Volume XIX, Issue 1692, 3 January 1936, Page 7
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