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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 160, 10 July 1939, Page 6

Just a Short Story This story of an inventive New Zealand farmer has had considerable currency in Australia recently, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. Knowing the traditional reluctance of sheep to enter a dip, the farmer constructed a perforated steel platform over the trough. The principle was to drive the sheep on to this, then pull a lever and plunge them inlo the wash. A dozen or so neighbours called to inspect the machine and give their opinion, an interested member of the part being the farmer’s six-year-old son. First the party mounted the platform to inspect its construction. Need it >e told? The I six-year-old pulled the lever. For the next week the boy's mother used to smuggle food to him at his various hideinils round the property,