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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIV, Issue 111, 24 September 1930, Page 5

“I have been on my farm fcr 38 years and I do not remember a winter and spring like this year’s. The ground has hardly been v-?t during the whole of the winter,” a well known Parackaretu farmer recently. “I am afraid, however, we will get the rain yet ” he

An unwelcome visitor to sheep farms in Pirinoa district was a wild pig which had recently been causing serious losses of lambs in its ravages. After several unsuccessful attempts to capture the marauder, a party lying in wait by moonlight sighted a boar, but not before it had killed several lambs could the party get in range and disable it with a bullet. It was immediately hemmed in by a pack of dogs, and finally despatched with a bullet. The boar is reported to be the biggest caught in the lower end of the valley for some years.

The enterprise and daring displayed by two youths on Friday night last would have been commendable had it been shown for something infinitely more •worthy than for gaining admis- . sion, without payment, to the school ball. One of the youths was known to have dodged payment last year, and his presence with ’ a companion, was noted outside the Theatre on Friday night, and a watch was kept to see if they appeared inside. It was not long before they were observed moving about in the Theatre, and, questioning them, and having proved that they had •got in by some improper method, they were told to “get out.” This they -did but not long afterwards were again mixing with the gay throng inside. This second appearance caused investi-

gations to be made which disclosed the method of their entry. This was by -way of the fire escape up the side of ‘the Theatre, then climbing on to the .roof, and through a trap door which opens into the space between the ceiling of the auditorium and the roof. They had to cross this to a manhole,

•which is situated in the ceiling of one of the dressing rooms. Against this manhole a ladder had been placed, and down this they came into the dressing room and thence to the back of the stage and into the Theatre proper. It was probably more a spirit of ad ven'ture than a desire to dodge paying the

very small charge for admission, that •prompted the trouble they took and the risks they ran in making so hazardous an entrance, but that they • certainly deserved the straight talking they received from Constable Butler must be admitted, and further attempts •at such foolhardy pranks will be sternF 3y nipped in the bud.