NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1927, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

Colonies of rabbits, amounting al most to a plague, have taken up (punters in the fields and river beds lira the mouth of the llaugitnta Rivei lately, and good sport is to he hn< there (says the Christchurch ••'Press”) Muring the week end many scores havi been killed, hut the colonies are iiev orlhcless in a flourishing condition. The plans and specifications of tin modern tourist hotel, which is to Ik erected at .Milford Sound, are beinf proceeded with as speedily as possible, and a rough draft of the plans linbeen received by the Public \\>iiks Department in Invercargill (says the “Southland Nows.”) “This is one of the fruits of having battled for 10 or 1” years,” said Alt \V. 11. Benson, when it- was reported at the meeting of the New Zealand Council of the Royal Life Saving Society ill Christchurch that the Education Department was obtaining returns of the percentage of swimmers in the public schools throughout, Xew Zealand (reports the “Lyttelton Times."') "MY have an educational ollicer who suppli-s :> list of new swimmers ill tho schools cadi year." The coum-i! decid'd to request I F.• Government to make the schools' figures available to members of the council. 'I he secretary, in hi- report expressed regret at having to refuse an application h>r an award from Auckland, ami >1 was stated that the application was not in order owing to there hong no centre