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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 8, 10 January 1936, Page 6

The capacity of the Waikato to absorb thousands of head of sheep and cuttle brought in from other districts every year will be illustrated again this season. Commencing this week the steamer Pakura will leave Hieks Bay, East Coast, with a consignment of 2600 Romney cross breeding ewes for Tnuranga, where they will be dispatched by train for various Waikato centres. The steamer will be iu commission until tho middle of Afareli bringing sheep from Hieks Bay, Tokomaru Bay, Tolaga Bay, Waikopuku and Gisborne. It is estimated that 78,000 breeding ewes will be drafted to the Waikato from the East Coast by boat this season.

To play against six boards simultaneously while -blindfolded, winning two games and drawing the other .four, was the achievement of Mr. C. J. S. Purdy, Australian chess champion, at Wellington on Wednesday afternoon. At night Mr. Purdy, played 19 opponents simultaneously, winning 13 games, losing two and drawing- four. Wins were scored from Mr. R. Christensen (Palmerston North) and Mr. If. Gallich.au (Wellington), while the bindfolded exponont drew with Mr. E. J. Dyer, champion of the Wellington Chess Club, Mr. G. H. Brown, cx-champion of the Napier Chess Club, Mr, W. H. Joyce, a prominent Canterbury player, whose father founded the Christchurch Club 70 years ago this month, and Mr. H. Christensen, ex-champion of the Palmerston North Chess Club.

Latitudes and longtitudes mean little to Americans if a recent issue of the Boston Herald is to be taken as an indication. Accompanying a prominently- displayed article on the new trans-Pacific air service, the Boston newspaper recently published a map of the world, in which New Zealand had been transported in toto to the equatorial regions north of Australia; in fact, to New Guinea. To offset any slight that might be felt by New Zealanders at this lack of knowledge of their Dominion, the American resident who sent the newspaper’to a friend in North Otago goes on to relate another geographical slip by an American. This time it was a school teacher who endeavoured to instil into the pupils’ minds the information that Australia was a part of New Zealand.

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