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Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1931, Page 6

“Nature'is looking after us this season,” stated a farmer at Auckland on Friday, referring to the early lariibing m tho North. The flocks he had Seen included an unusually large number of twins and triplets, Many of the lambs born about a month ago were thriving well.

“Creditors generally are ■ under a misapprehension as to judgment summonses,” said Mr, J. R. Bartholomew, SM., during an examination of a judgment debtor in the Magistrate’s Court at Dunedin. “The Court is not here to put tile Screw on the debtor but to deal with the debtor who is flouting an order made by the Court.

When the Taranaki and Wanganui Rurffiy representative teams filed on to Pukekura Park on Saturday prior io exchanging cheers before the commencement of tho game the Taranaki captain, Jack Walter, was observed to be leading a mascot by a string. The mascot consisted of a Pomeranian dog attired in a yellow jersey and. black pants. The sight of such a big man leading such a little dog created considerable merriment.

“Railway charges,” writes the London correspondent of tho New Zealand Railways Magazine, “are. based on tlie value of the load, wliereas the road carrier bases his charges on the truckniilo cost. It is estimated that competing road transport in tho area, served by one of the principal British railways carries 58 per cent, of the goods traffic between points Up to forty miles apart; 19 per Cent, of the goods traffic between points over forty miles apart; and 24 per cent, of the goods traffic over Wide areas under a comprehensive system of rgdial distribution by the traders’ own fleets.”

Llssaman’s Mamuiitis Paint cures hard udders. Manawatu farmer writes: “Since using your paint have not had a single cow go dry in a quarter. An unfailing remedy.” Lissaman, Box 63a. Kapoiiga.*

Owing to tho general trade depression and cut in wages, the Hustlers are offering smashing bargains and huge reductions in all departments to enable their many customers to replenish their drapery wants at the lowest noasible cost.