Farewell Gifts.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 January 1935, Page 6

Farewell Gifts.

Farewell gifts to Lord and Lady Bledisloe will be made by the Maoris during the visit of Their Excellencies to Rotorua this week, states the New Zealand Herald. The Arawa Trust Board has had two caskets carved as a farewell gift. In the larger casket it is proposed to place a film of the Waitangi celebrations. An address from the Maoris wu. also be presented in the form of a scroll attached to two lucky sticks. Great importance was attached to these sticks by the Maoris in bygone days. Fresh Pastures for Cattle.

In view of the arid conditions prevailing in the Waikato farmers are finding it increasingly difficult to feed stock and \the opportunity is being taken in certain cases to move cattle to parts of the country where there is more grass. Evidence •of this is given by the fact that two special stock trains have been arranged to transport beasts to Kirikopuni, in North Auckland, where the rains have been responsible for a splendid growth of grass for this time of the year. One of the Village Legends.

Old residents of Clinton (South Otago) and others who visited the town recently for the school jubilee celebrations have been recalling the occasion—about 40 years ago—when two local girls found £lOO under a small bridge on the main road immediately north of the town, states the Otago Daily Tinies. Fortune must have led their steps to the bridge that afternoon, for there were plenty of other spots about the village where they could play to their hearts’ content, and they were two very surprised girls who tore the lid from an old, rusted tin and saw a. wad of banknotes within. Hastily counting the money, they fouud it amounte ’ to £lOO, undreamt of wealth to them, and they hurried home with their prize, eager to inform their relatives of their sudden access of fortune. It is not known to this day how the money came to be hidden under the bridge, and it is generally believed that it was left there by some “swagger” who had stolen it. When a sufficient time had elapsed the money was apportioned equahy between the girls. On musically inclined, bought a piano, and the other, whose tastes evidently lay in a more practical direction, celebrated her good luck by investing portion of her wealth in a calf, /■