A notable event in agricultural circles took place at Outram yesterday, when MM. Wright Stephenson and Co have offered at auction the whole of the famous Lee Creek stud of Mr. James Patrick’s purebred Clydesdale horses, 50 head in number. Mr Patrick is retiring after 26 years on his leasehold property about two miles from Outram Township, his intention being to take a trip to Scotland. During this time his name has become familiar across both islands as Clydesdale Breeder. His own horses have had a unique record of success wherever they have been shown, and the horses bred from the many renowned sires which he has imported from time to time from Scotland are today found in the front ranks of almost every leading exhibitions.

The break-up of such a noted stud will leave Otago much poorer, but some compensation may be found in the distribution among the farmers of such fine blood The sale attracted a very large turnout from all over Canterbury, Otago and Southland , and the large motor car park in the adjoining paddock was a rare sight.

As well as Clydesdale Stud, Mr Patrick’s sheep and cattle and all his stock of tools and sundries were auctioned off and all realized fair market value.

The Clydesdales sale began at 11am with a number of geldings, some of which were purchased by the New Zealand Express Company, with prices reaching £46, £49 and £50.

The most famous of all the breeding, the famous stallion Baron Bold, (1904, Baron’s Pride-Donna Roma, by McGregor) went to the owner’s son, Mr JR Patrick, of Waimate, at 750 guineas.

The public is invited to buy poppies

There’s no real need to remind the public, we hope, that it’s “poppy day” in Dunedin. “Buy a poppy and help a digger” runs the caption already familiar to many eyes, and those simple words make perhaps a more telling appeal than anything more discursive eloquence could invent.

The flowers that will be on sale in their abundance today should do little more than spark thoughts and memories of the stricken countryside in France and Flanders, where our soldiers fought and gave their lives.

For they should entice the imaginative buyer into passing visualization of indomitable France itself, and its too-many widows and orphans whose labors have produced those petals not soon destined to wither or decay. These poppies must perfume the memory, and the generosity of the public today will help the bereaved in France as well as the returning soldiers – with their dependents – who, in our own country, lack employment. It’s a chance for the people of Dunedin to show their sense of what they owe to those who fought for them in the Great War in a practical way.

Education for a Good Housewife

‘If education can make a girl a good housekeeper, she will fulfill her highest office, as far as she is concerned,’ said Minister of Education (Hon CJ Parr) at school Beckenham. “I hope that in the new curriculum (the 12 to 16 year old course) the girls will spend half their time on domestic science, as is done in Victoria, with the other half of the curriculum devoted to English, in arithmetic, accounting, etc. The course will train a girl to become a real housewife and an intelligent companion to her husband.The importance of domestic sciences cannot be overemphasized. ODT21.4.1922