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Friendly Chaffinch A female chaffinch adopted a Woodville resident reports a correspondent of the Forest and Bird Society. The bird would follow her round the garden and would fly through the house searching for its friend. In the summer the bird would often be found perched on the bedpost in the early morning. This companion-* ship was kept up for three years ( when the bird fell a victim to a straj' cat. Disease in Stoats Stoats are subject periodically to an epidemic disease that kills many of them. A writer in Forest and Bird describes how a harrier hawk and its young benefited from such an epidemic. The stoats were very weak and fell an easy prey to the harrier. A strange fact was that the sick stoats which were seen frequently during two wee'ks all ap-> peared to be moving in a southerly direction. New Zealand Tobacco Crop Climatic conditions in the past season were not the ■most favourable for the tobacco crop, states the eighth annual report of the Tobacco Board presented to Parliament. Shortage of experienced labour was a major difficulty and this was reflected in the quality of the particularly where inexperienced pickers were employed. Indications were that the area s under tobacco would show a considerable increase this 3'ear.

PUBLIC NOTICES NORTHERN IjySafl) CO-OPERATIVE WJRTW TERMINATING SOCIETY APPROPRIATION MEETING TO BE HELD ON THURSDAY, THE 30th AUGUST, 1945. BALLOTS: Groups 2; 8;, 11; I' 2; 15; 17; 19; 22; 23; 26; 28; 31; 33; 34; 37; 46; 48. SALE BY TENDER: Groups 3; 4; 6; 24;' 25; 27: 29;' 32; 36; 38; 41; 53. Total to be Appropriated: £26,000. LAST PAY-DAY: MONDAY, 27th 1945. A. J. CANNING, The Strand. Whakatane Agent.