HOKONUI’S MODESTY
There used to be an “auld wife’s” theory that when a preponderance of boys was born there was a war brewing somewhere in the distance. Possibly some such reason accounts for the competition that appears to be going on in the sheep world this season in lambing achievements, comments “Straggler” in the Press. It was notified a fortnight ago that a ewe, near Rangiora, made history by giving birth to five lambs. She did not hold the record long for now comes a report from Hokonui, in Southland, where a ewe belonging to Mr G. W. Tanner, gave birth to six normal sized and healthy lambs. One died, but the others are “all doing well.” a similar occurrence in South Africa was made the subject of a world-wide cable a few weeks ago, but the achievement down at Hokonui has been allowed to drift out to the world with the modesty that marks at least one other product of that district This ewe no doubt will retain the blue ribbon or whatever stands for domestic fame in the sheep world.
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Southland Times, Issue 22728, 2 November 1935, Page 12
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182HOKONUI’S MODESTY Southland Times, Issue 22728, 2 November 1935, Page 12
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