NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 32, 11 February 1929, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS

NOTES FROM ALL PARTS THE DOMINION DAY BY DAY. HERE, THERE, AND fiVERYWHEK PROLIFIC EWES. Mr. David Caird, of Pareora HVe.s has had an experience with his shoe which is somewhat unusual, in thi last year he had two ewes in ly Southdown stud flock which lam.be twice, in one season (states the, T maru Herald"). Both ewes lambe< on June 6, each having a ram lamt On December 22 of the same yeai both ewes lambed' again, on© givin birth to a "ram lamb and the other t twin lambs —a ram and a ewe. Thu from two ewes Mr. Caird got fivi lambs in one season. A}l the lamb have grown wellj "and are' stilt to b seen on Mr. Caird's faW at Pare oral West. , "■ . ' ■east;- ' Otwimg to the abnormally wel spring, followed by a too abundant supply of feed, especially; on the*hilly country, where farmers have beei unable to place cattle to eat down the lambs this season aw later in fattening off for the works, with the result that there have, been smaller drafts than was the .date last season. One stock agent informed a Napier Telegraph teportei that he had found lambs off flat country which had passed 'through

his hands in excellent condition, but lambs in the high lands' were hackward, in topping off.

NO PARTY POLITICS. ;I am pleased to have a portfolio toi administer in which the question of party politics, does not obtrude/' said! the Hon. A. J. Stallworthy, Minister of Health,, in replying to a welcome, extended to him.pjy tho Auckland Hospital Board. The Health Department, in New Zealand' had accomplished < a great deal,' the Minister added, but there was mucft morei still to do. He particularly apr ! preciated the assurance of co-opera-tion he received from the board. Along the lines of co-operation* |h'i| Department would realise work challenging it in the future. I , '"'. :',V COMMUNITY HOSPITAL SYSTEM At a recent meeting of the council of the New Zealand branch of tho British Medical Association, the following remit from the Poverty Bay Division was. submitted by Dr. W. J. Johnston:—"That in the opinion of 1 the division -Ehe Government should send to America a commission consisting of (a) a member of the Health Department,* (b) a superintendent of a group I lbsplM~; (c) a superintendent of a group 2 hospital, to investigate the administration of the community hospital' systenu Alter a short discussion it was resolved: "That as strong representations have already been made to she -Government by the association &'■ support of the system ajti the time of Dr. M.. T. MaoEachern's visit to New Zealand, in the opinion of the council no advantage would accrue from sending a commission to America." AN OLD BARQUE DISMANTLED. It was with feelings akin, 5» "attending a funeral that , j old-timers watched the dismantling of the old barque. Northern Chief, known in the 'eighties and 'nineties as Mackay's yacht, at Prince's Wharf, writes, the "Auckland Star." For over 40 yeai% she rendered good service in the intercolonial and 'Frisco trade, but, with the end," of the war; Bhe was relegated to So much had her masts deteriorated for want of attention that when she was being berthed the mainmast snapped below the cross-trees, and crashed .upon the deck. The foremast and stump of the, mainmast, weie lifted out by the wharf.crane,p sen-mast, having the shroud lanyards undone, wa stoo rotten to hold its own weight, , and plunged overboard, breaking away as it struck the water. . Luckily the workmen were well clear of both spars when they carried away. The hull is to be towed to Clevedon, where it will, be broken up, the beams for fencing posts and the planking for "firewood. = - '