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Our New Zealand Cousins.
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"Ah, me!" said Deak. "How many of us think only of our half-acre of poppies, forgetful of the myriad good things which fall daily to our lot."

The closing note I find recorded about Southland is that it contains the finest herd of black-polled Angus cattle in the southern hemisphere. These form the famous Waimea herd, near Gore, which has taken the first prize for this class wherever shown in Australia.