“IT’S GOING TO BE WORTH WHILE," SAYS DELIGHTED FARMER
FARMING PROSPECTS BRIGHT. Ho was an exceedingly optimistic Taranaki farmer who boarded the express for New Plymouth yesterday after a fortnight’s sojourn oli the farm, his beaming bewhiskered face ■giving expression to ah inward confidence that the coming season was going to be a good one for the “cockic. ” “It’s going to be worth while pulling teats this year,” ho told a ‘Times’ reporter to whom he imparted the information that only that morning he bad received word that a firm had offered his factory au advance of lOd. for cheese on consignments. ■ “What do you think of that?” he asked, giving th* reporter a slap on the shoulder with a hand that fell like a sledge hammer and resembled a shovel head in size and shape. “Ton pence .nr 1 Jad in advance and more to follow.”
With that he passed on singing: Hey! Ho! The wind and the rain. Bright times arc coming for cockics again.” The reporter was glad that he was gone. Ten pence advance might be alright as far as his newly found farmer friend was concerned but a slap on the shoulder from a palm that would do Tom Heency credit was another matter. ■ '
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6670, 25 July 1928, Page 10
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209“IT’S GOING TO BE WORTH WHILE," SAYS DELIGHTED FARMER Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6670, 25 July 1928, Page 10
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