Total Clearance At Poroti

Northern Advocate, 24 February 1940, Page 4

Total Clearance At Poroti

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report • holding a sale at Poroti', when there was an average attendance of buyers, and a fair yarding sold readily, there being a total clearance. Fat ewes made to 21/; fat lambs, 20/; Southdown rams, £2; medium fat cows, £7 to £7 5/; lighter, £5 >to £5 17/6; boner cows, £2 10/ to £3 17/; boner bulls, £3 10/ to £7; yearling Jersey heifers, £2 11/. .

The price of Rudyard Kipling’s books has kept them out of reach for thousands of people who have read borrowed copies and wished very much to own at least a selection. The Jungle Bock, and others, are now being issued by Macmillan at 3/6 each. The recently issued selection of Kipling’s ' poems in Hodder and Stoughton’s “Black Jackets” at 3/-, contains most of his patriotic and popular c ompositions. The most widely read, sung and recited of all his poems, called the “Recessional” very nearly disappeared into the waste-paper basket. For some reason or other he did not set store by it. However, it got fished out and sent to “The Times,” and after that it flashed round the world, and to the world it has belonged ever since, though a great many people enjoy its # mood more than they realise its actual implications. " Why “The Recessional?” Verily, I don’t know, for it never was and never will be fitted into such a narrow mould.