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Otago Witness, Issue 3855, 31 January 1928, Page 11

Strict as chairmen may be, there are few meetings which are not punctuated by “ asides ” and twinkles of humour which, despite irrelevancy, are often enjoyed bv the meeting. At a Taranaki County Council. meeting the subject was whether certain members of the staff were given to the practice of “ leaning on their shovels ” (says the News). One councillor remembered that one day when he was taking a bull along a country road the animal and a sleeping surfaceman reclining on a. mossy bank were startled simultaneously. Tney took opposite directions—the bull down the road and the navvy over the fence. The 12 young men who came from public schools in England a year ago have undergone their 12 months’ training in agriculture at the Ruakura State Experimental Farm and have been drafted to various farmers to complete their period of training (says the Auckland Star’s Hamilton correspondent). On the whole the youths did well at Ruakura. and have adapted themselves readily to Dominion conditions. Those who were in charge of them at the Ruakura School express confidence that they will make good as farmers.