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Taranaki Daily News, 4 June 1934, Page 4

There is an element of amusing ambiguity in the text of the application forms issued under the Poultry Runs Registration Act. These forms begin: “I hereby apply, in pursuance of the above Act, for the registration for the year ending May 31, 19—, of the undermentioned poultry-run, of which I am the occupier.” The definition of “occupier,” stated on the back of the form, does nothing to remove the possibility of a mistaken impression being gathered. There an occupier is defined as “the person by whom or on whose behalf any premises are actually occupied.” Criticism of cartoons of farmers in newspapers was expressed by Mr. F. Waite, during the annual conference of the Otago Provincial Council of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. He said that in the cartoons the farmer was generally represented as hanging over a fence with his trousers patched up, the general impression conveyed by these cartoons being that the farmer had nothing to do. Mr. Waite said that even in Point Blank, the farmers’ own paper, the farmer was depicted in attitudes which were not true to life.

As a result of an unusual accident on the Gisborne Agricultural and Pastoral Society’s show grounds, Mr. Stanley Eastham, aged 25 years, was admitted to the Cook Hospital suffering from concussion. He was leaving the show grounds in his car, and was facing toward the sun, when he ran into a single-wire fence that had been erected in the course of preparations for the rodeo competitions. The wire smashed the windscreen and, catching Mr. Eastham under the chin, threw him over the back of the car to the ground.

“My own opinion of Flock House is that it is one of the finest institutions in this country for taking care of the sons of returned soldiers,” said Mr. A. Cowles, at the annual meeting of the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association. “Not only do they learn the principles of farming, ’-ut they receive an excellent character training, and they are turned out really fine fellows. There has been a very small percentage of failures.” He added that some of the boys who had passed through Flock House had saved enough money to acquire an area of land on which they had established a communal settlement, and they were on the road to prosperity.