Local and General

Chronicle (Levin), 4 February 1949, Page 4

Local and General

Four-yolked Egg A hen at Frasertown has laid an egg containing three yolks and also a fully-developed normal egg about the size of a pullefs. The larger egg was more than 4 ins. long, had a circumference of about 8 ins. and weighe'd over 8 ozs. The inner egg - — 2 ins. long and weighing 2 ozs — had a hard shell. The bird- was owned by Mrs. Dunn, proprietor of the local hotel. Naval Regatta The first regatta to have been held in the Royal -New Zealand Navy since 1939 will be staged at Akaroa during the three days from March 15 to 18 that five ships, the lignt cruiser Bellona and the frigates Hawea, Kaniere, Taupo and Pukaki, will be anchored there. Whaler races — sailing and pulling- — and various traditional naval inter-ship competitive sporting events will be held. A Big Subject "I come from Vancouver, in British Columbia— Canada's Cafifornia," said Professor G. M. Shrum, 'leader of the Canadian delegation to the Seventh Pacific Science Congress, at the inaugural mesting of the congress. "Anybody who knows California or British Columbia knows that you cannot begin to talk about those places in five minutes. So I will confine my remarks to the whole of Canada." He Didn't Even. Try! A local visitor to the show on Saturday won a host of prizes from the sideshows the easy way. He returned home after a busy day with the luggage carrier of his car simply bulging with ashtrays, butter dishes, safety razors and even apparatus used by the various competitive stalls. No, he did not break th'e bank. Someone, presumably the owner of a stall, merely mistook. tne car for that of his own.

Broke The Machine! "The last time I did this -in Wasnington, I broke the machine," said the distinguished New Zealand anthropologist, Sir Peter Buck, fwhen he announced at the inaug- | ural meeting of the Seventh Paciftc j Science Congress that he would j conclude his remarks with a Maori | chant. "I hope there's nothing isensitive in these instruments," he jobserved, inspecting the battery of jmicrophones on the stage before j launching into a striking chant Iwhich delighted all delegates. Family Reunions The Panair clipper Argonaut, which arrived from Seattle early this morning, closed a gap of over 20 years' when it fcrought together members of two separate families who had not seen their kin during that time. Miss Ethel Clarke, of Cheshire, was met by her sister Miss D. M. Clarke, who had not seen her since she came to New Zealand 22 years ago. The other reunion was that of Mr. Peter Barrett, who went to the United States 20 years ago and became a 'bank official. With a broad American accent he greeted his mother, father, two brothers and three sisters at Whenuapai this morning. Message From The Sea Eight and a half years after the Niagara was sunk by mines oif the Northland coast, a bottle purporting to contain a message from a passenger on.the doomed vessel, has been found. The Niagara was lost on June 19, 1940. Ali the passengers and crew were rescued. On January 28 this year, a nine year old boy, Grant Pirihi, found a beer bottle on the beach at Takahiwai on the Whangarei harbour coast. In the bottle which was securely corked, was a pencilled message onj a stained piece of paper. It reads: ; Time 6.20. Taking to lifeboats. Here's hoping — Niagara. A. M. Mac." On appearances the message is genuine and if so the bottle has been eight and a half years in transit. |