RECOGNISED THEIR TYPE.

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1661, 10 September 1925, Page 7

RECOGNISED THEIR TYPE.

HEREFORDS IN THE “PITCHERS.”

Last week, at the urging of friends, we broke a salutary rule and “went to the pitchers,” writes the Editor of The Live Stock Bulletin. The picture was “The Ten Commandments,” .a very wonderful piece of staging, but about the most morbid and distressful thing imaginable. We .shocked our friends afterwards by saying that we had enough trouble every day with herd book entries without paying four shillings and fivepence to see more trouble on a screen. However, that by the way. The staging of the whole thing is wonderful. The flight of the children of Israel from Egypt is most realistic. They are seen pouring out of the city gates, carrying bundles of clothes, dragging their children, wheeling their aged and infirm in harrows, riding their donkeys and driving their cattle before them. Moses, striding ahead with measured step, is an inspiring figure. On Mount Sinai, receiving the tablets while being blinded by thunder and lightning, he is magnificent. It was the cattle of these ancient sojourners in Egypt that interested us, however. Most of them were grade Herefords, and one which blocked the procession for a moment, right in front of the campera, was quite a decent Guernsey steer! “Yes,” said one of our friends when we pointed this out to him, “and those goats are from Charters Towers. I recognise the type of them”.