SMART WORK.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 13 December 1912, Page 4

SMART WORK.

AN UPPER W ; AITOTARA INCIDENT

A FEAT- TO BE PROUD OF,

That the qualities of <resou,t]ge£ulnesis, energy and determination which, characterised the early pioneers are not numbered amongst the lost virtues is from time ,to_ time evidenced !by the, exploits of the younger. gerier.aitio.n who have ta'kien in hatnd the (breaking-An of what is now known as thfc back country. An instance of the kind of thing to which we refer was mentioned to a "Chronicle" representaitive ilast evening by Mr Day, of the No. 2 Lime. , He had occasion ®n Thursday of last .week to visit a comparatively new selection in the Upper Waitotara ifor the purpose of taking delivery of a thousand sheep. The run in question 19 owned by the Leahy brothers, four an .number, ■but at the time only two of them. Patrick and Edward^liappened to be sub home. In order to get the sheep out it vnas necessary to pass them over the Waitotara River, which on the day in question was .im hijrh flood? Fording was an impossibility, bu/t "Pat" and "Ted" were equal to the emergency. Without waiting any time they set to work to improvise &■ bridge, and although they had to transport the necessary materially fully a mile and a, half, within three hours they had the bridge up, and every one of the thousand sheep safely across —-a feat, saidi •Mr Day, of which the young fellows toight well feel proud.