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Waipa Post, Volume 31, Issue 1762, 25 May 1926, Page 6

The complete stud Friesian herd of Mr H. R. Green at Oakview, Kairanga, has been sold to the Litchenstein, Arnoldsen Company, Auckland, (according to a Press message) and will be used to stock a large property owned by tib-e firm near Lake Rotoiti. This herd, is undoubtedly one of the best known and most successful in the Southern Hemisphere. Many wonderful record-breakers have been bred in it, including Rosa Posch of Oakview, with 7181bs. tutterfat as a junior two-year-old, and Jessa Monona Johanna of Oakview. with 7271b5. as a junior two-year-old. Twelve members of the herd under semi-official test averaged 7391b5. butterfat. Mr Donald Green's imported bull. Bell Farm Echo Sylvia Trojan, was sold to the same purchasers.

"The coming winter is going to be one of great stress, there is likely to be a good deal of unemployment in Hamilton," remarked Or. J. 'Denz at a meeting of the Hamilton Borough Council last Wednesday night. The sai'l that the position on the labour market wa s already acute, and one man had told the speaker that he was prepared to work merely for food for his wife and family without wages if ha could get the work. The Mayor's fund. was. therefore, likely to he severely taxed during the next few months, and with a view to augmenting this the sneaker moved that a committee be s et up to confer with certain musical people in the town for the purpose of arranainK a series of concerts to augment tlhe fund. The motion was carried.