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Northern Advocate, 6 August 1924, Page 3

An amusing incident was witnessed on the Palmerston North station the other morning. A telegraph messenger (relates the "Standard") was endavouring to locate the addressee of a telegram and a new arrival to the country beckoned to him. The boy, after a few minutes' endeavour to understand the immigrant's dialect, gave up the attempt, and, turning to a companion, remarked in a disgusted tone: "It's no use; they can't speak English." A Wanganui resident, giving an opinion on the freezing industry in New Zealand, stated that the smaller works were getting slowly, but surely, squeezed by the big combines, and rvere being forced to' pay the farmer more than stock were worth (states the "Herald"). There would come a time when the monopoly would reign supreme, and then the farmers would find that they would be paid any price the combine desired. He maintained that farmers, Avith few exceptions, could not see haf the length of a little finger ahead in regard to important matters of this kind.