MISSING FISHERMEN SAFE
By Telegraph—Preis oßociation. Gisborne, October (I. A fishing launch containing threo Wairoa ■ natives put out from Qisborno yesterday, tlio occupants intending to return last night, but up to 3.50 p.m. had not done so. A heavy south-easterly gale haa been blowing with a liign sea, Lator. Tho Maori fishermen reported missing iiavo landed sa-lely on the coast eoutn of Gisburuc.
A hen's egg of unusual proportiona was brought to Edinburgh from a farm in Faust Lothian the other day. It weighod and measured 9 inches round the ends and 71 inches round the middle. Notwithstanding its abnormal proportions, the person who received it concluded Ilia,- it vow just mi exceptionally big doublc-yolked egg. But when it was cracked to be fried, there was found inside r.nothor egg—complete—hard shell and all. The outer ess as well as tho inner had a full yolk and proportionate amount of while. AVhat is claimed as the largest hen egg of the Commonwealth has been laid by a White Leghorn hen owned by Mr. J. Pa6coe,. of Burraga, near Lithgow, N.S.W. It, is 11} inches in circumference lengthwise, and turns the scalo at lljoz.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 10, 7 October 1919, Page 9
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192MISSING FISHERMEN SAFE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 10, 7 October 1919, Page 9
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