NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1923, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES.

'* fc Is tiio tomato a fruit or a vegetable.' asks liit* “Taranaki HoraUl’. Gne indignant champion of t.tie fruit theory once suul: “Tl’o tonuito grows on tJio plant just like* Jin Jipplo on fl Iroo, Or u. grape on the vine: it conies Iron* <2 flower in the same way. Ol course ' ‘fflSt is fruit, just as a carrot is a vegetable." The only answer lie received was: “What a luscious fruit is the pumpkin"!’’ Another argument for the fruit side was that a fruit is oaten raw, or can be eaten raw, whereas a vegetable, except by the youthlul is not eaten uncooked.

♦oiling of the deer herds ill various districts has been started by .Mr C. 11. Boulil, amt in each instance has been TUOf't successful (stntcs an cNflinii^e).

gome 1100 were shot in bower Wnirarapu, 30 at pupaparaumu, and a number at Ki.ctnlioua and obewltore. -Mr Mould considered the heads at EketaInma the best-lie bad seen, and recumtneiids 1 1 mt iO*J'<mc wishing good spait should visit there during the shooting season. Klcvemdeer were captured and five of these have been forwarded to Pongnroa to he liberated, three were sent to the Hawke’s Bay district and three to Westport. Mr Mould has also had liberated in the Wellington district 200 pheasants from Dargavillo. Game Farm, will be liberated between Palmerston North and I’arapnraumu. Mr lteul.h'predicts a good season.

The following extract from a letter accompanying an order received tiom a New Zealander in Calcutta shows one of the difficulties under which business is ijffried on in that city:—“l would particularly ask you to see that all papers sent are stamped, for. owing to the extent of Post Oltiee thefts in this country (India) it is impossible to

receive parcels with any certainty tui-■‘-“''f,,./ th*-y are either registered or midetystanipod. and I would far sooner pay ihe extra postage than not receive iny ptywrs.’’ Unfortunately, comments the Christchurch “Press”, the Now Zealand G-.v nment will not forward packages beyond New Zealand unless fully stamped, and so oven in this ease the “cure” is iikely to prove fatal.