A Taihape district farmer has found that silver beet is a great factor in fattening lambs. In November last he put down twofifths of an acre in silver beet. Six weeks ago 36 lambs were fattened on this small area, which is now ready for feeding again. The beet was grown at an altitude of 2080 feet. A writer in a contemporary complains that the gambling game known as “two up” is played extensively, at the flaxmills. in the Manawatu district. He says every Saturday, until Monday morning, these schools are in full swing, and hundreds of young fellows —boys, in fact —are “taken down” for their wages by a set of harpies who make it a business to live on them. The modus operandi is that these men come along and work (say) a week or so and then make a “haul” and leave. The other day one of these rooks took £l3O for one Saturday’s work.
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Waipa Post, Volume VI, Issue 304, 7 April 1914, Page 4
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