NOW AND THEN.
|: The Timaru Herald says :-^-The presisni \hi not harvest weather .at allj and presents a strange contrast to the dry hflr'-yresters which used, some twenty' years ago, to blow over the tussockcovered .downs where the town of Timaru now stands. At that time, we are assured by an old inhabitant, .the • merino sheep used to. seize a tussock with 1 their teeth and hold on to it like grim death to prevent themselves being blown away, while theit wool was picked off the nearest bush of wild Irishmen! JFurther up m the ;hills te says a new chum once came to him and,, seeing a large flock of sheep rushing for, a certain point, asked him what rthey were making for, and he told them the only tussock the wi,nd bad not: blown away." Later on a number of " jitmboka" were seen huddled up with their lieads directe^ towards a common centre, and our informant was aaked by th6 v new chum "what they were looking so^'Siid and anxious about, the reply being that they were waiting for the I tussock to grow again.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 48, 25 January 1884, Page 3
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187NOW AND THEN. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 48, 25 January 1884, Page 3
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