LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15194, 14 April 1917, Page 7

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In the chopping event at the Te Karaka sports on Easter Monday (says the Poverty Bay Herald), W. 'Wilson had the misfortune, whilst engaged in the underhand chop, to let hi.s axe drop and cut off three of his toes. He still continued chopping, and won the event before having his foot attended to. "It is nonsense to say that the meat trust exists in only one part of New Zealand," declared Captain V. Colbeck at a recent meeting' of the Auckland Farmers' Union Executive. "It is all over the Dominion, and its operations are being felt more and more as time goes on."

"There are cases where retired farmers should come forward and do something for their country," said Captain Walker, at Ihe Military Appeal Board, sitting in Palmerston when it was suggested that a retired farmer should take over the management of a relative's farm and allow bao latter to go to the front. Captain Walker remarked that iu the case under consideration, the retired farmer was practically a young man, and he should do something for the country that bad treated him so well.

A capital story is going the rounds jn Hastings regarding a dashing young Hawkc's Bay sheep-farmer, with plenty of pluck and a shrewd eye, who was sent out by his commanding officer in Mesopotamia to get information regarding the nature of the ground at the rear of the Turkish lines. After an absence of some days he returned and duly reported to the general that "the country if properly handled, would carry about three sheep to the acre !''