NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1925, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

The lambing season in Hawke's Ba.v is heaping fanners busy at present (states the Napier “Telegraph”). On cue Piikotnpu sheep run 1000 ewes, out cf a total of I'iOtJ, bore lambs, within ten days. There were several lots of triplets, and one enterprising matron was the proud mother of four. "While in Fiji 1 was greatly impressed willi the prospects of the dairy industry there,” said Kir Thomas A(nckeuaie, who returned to Auehland hy the Aorangi (reports the “N.Z. Herald”). Kir Thomas .Mackenzie said many people had gone in for rows and :i dairy factory was turning out good holler. The dairy tanners considered Hie prospects for dairying were very good. A legal curiosity lias been ‘‘dug up" out of an old I Government publication (states an exchange). It was contained in the memorandum of agreement between milk vendors and their employers dealing with the sale of milk, ‘‘or of any other liquid, called or known hy the name of milk.” Naturally, to the uninitiated it conveys a meaning entirely different to what a legal interpretation would convey. In the course of an address at Christchurch Mr Frank Thompson stated that buses were thought hy many people to be the means of transport in the future (relates the “Lyttelton Times”). If there were nothing else but buses it would require I*lo of them to remove the people from Cathedral Square between f> and 5.1 b p.m. each day. A bus costs about as much as a tramcar, yet it could seat only half tho number, and, therefore, a bus seat cons twice as much as a tramcar seat. An old tattooed Maori, who was fossicking among the rocks of the Takapuna beach in Auckland, caused a good deal of amusement to a large number of visitors from the city who were nejoying the sunshine (relates an exchange). The old man was told that before the white man came the Maori must have enjoyed living so near such a beautiful beach, but now the pakehas had it all to themselves. “The white man no good.” replied the old man. ‘‘lie hardly ever see the beach; he rush off to town every morning and come home after the sun has set at night. Takapuna now only the same as a sleeping place or bedroom, all the most of the white people did was to sleep there.”