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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 2 December 1922, Page 10

The place Ion" held by the dot; as a family pet and street companion threatens to be usurped by the monkey and other exotic creatures. Women in London are seen carrying marmosets, mongooses, foxes, parrots, and snakes. People also are getting accustomed to the woman with a young white fox on a string, another with three cats, and to the chimpanzee which rides in a motorcar. Hut the most startling innovation in family pets was observed at a garden party where a. guest carried what appeared to he a sunshade, with a highly decorated handle. Closer inspection revealed the “handle” to be a beautifully marked snake, perfectly motmmoss, and entwined over its fair owner s arm and around her sunshade A farmer who drove into Timaru last Saturday in his motor-car received more than a mild surprise when passing through Stafford Street. His car was running along at a nice pace when a “lady” dressed in startling colours climbed into the car and turned off the petrol. The look on his face proved conclusively that visions of a weird nature wore flashing before his eyes. Everything was set right, however, when the masquerader, a commercial traveller, explained the purport of his visit, and asked the farmer to buy an orphans’ badge. Realising the position, tlie man at the wheel took joke good-humouredly, and "paid up. Whilst speaking of the meat pool and the dairv pool ni Hawe.ra on Saturday night, Mr Massey said that the price of meat, went up on tho London market the very day the meat pool was formed, An interject or asked if he was prepared to say that tho price would Tiave gone up without the pool. I am._ said Mr Massey. "The plain truth is that big profiteering concerns organised to try to block us and we heat them. Tho Meat Control Board had done well, and amply justified its existence. They had the markets now, but they would need to ho well looked a.fter > in the future or the South American States would be coming in.;