Nevertheless, there was a very large attendance and those who did brave the elements had only to face some showers.
The track was on the soft side, but better than expected.
For the Dunedin Cup, Count Cavour was a pronounced favourite and at once became prominent. Count Cavour was bred by an old Dunedinite in Mr Cecil Brannigan, who has a one-mare stud at Ashburton.
Count Cavour won the Dunedin Guineas, the New Zealand Derby, Great Northern Derby and missed the New Zealand Cup and Auckland Cup by narrow margins.
His success in the Dunedin Cup, considering he earned his 9.8 in soft going and won easily after covering a good deal of ground and then allowed nothing to challenge him seriously at the finish, was meritorious.
Keep it clean
It should be understood that milk as secreted from clean, healthy cows is sterile and that, any bacteria subsequently found in it are of the nature of contamination. Hence the necessity for keeping everything in the milking yard scrupulously clean.
Grasping the scope of biology
The inquisitiveness of some youngsters is difficult to satisfy, but the questioner relieves the situation sometimes by leaping to his own conclusion.
"Who looked after the first baby?"
"Why, of course, the mother."
"But who looked after the first mother when she was a baby"?
The parents tried to lead the questioner back generation after generation to what he called "the very, very first baby". In a kind of desperation they told him it was a monkey that took care of the first baby. Triumphantly satisfied, the boy remarked, "then the monkey was the first mother".
His conclusion would scarcely satisfy the fundamentalists of Dayton, USA.
Anti-fly propaganda
The ubiquitous house fly and the many dangers which arise from its disease-spreading train, are subjects which occupied the attention of the Sanitary Inspectors’ Conference yesterday. Mr R. Day, the New Plymouth delegate, submitted his scheme for spreading anti-fly propaganda and the results accruing from it. He had, he said, approached the parents and children in his district, and after having discussed the subject with them, had invited the children to prepare drawings illustrating their idea of what a very grave danger the house fly really was. No fewer than 300 drawings had been received, and some of the best were displayed to the delegates. That the youngsters had thoroughly gripped the idea and that they properly understood the damage that a fly could do and how it did it, were well illustrated in these drawings. The pest’s wanderings from the rubbish bin to the meal table, its voyages from all sorts of filth into the nursery and its potentialities as a carrier of disease were clearly depicted, and from this demonstration it would seem as if the coming generation are so fully alive to the danger of the fly nuisance that in the near future it will be greatly reduced, if not actually eliminated.
— ODT, 12.2.1926
