Losses Through Bloating. Many farmers on the Rangitaiki Plains are experiencing severe losses by bloating among dairy herds. Losses have exceeded 10 per cent, in some cases and one farmer with a herd of about 40 cows lost four in one week. In spite of the losses production seems to be keeping up well, for many of the lost cows are the weaker and less efficient ones. The Rangitaiki Plains Dairy Company is averaging about 17i tons daily, this being about two tons below the exceptionally good year of 1937.
Shield For Shooting. The announcement that Colonel Martin Roberts- a former New Zealand Commandant, had donated a shield for a rifle shooting competition for members of the squadron was announced on Saturday night at a social function held by the Wanganui Squadron of the British Corps of Frontiersmen. It was stated thaM the name of the winner each year would be inscribed on the shield. The competition will be fired on the new miniature rifle range at the headquarters of the_ o.n Gonville Domain.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 256, 30 October 1939, Page 6
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