NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1927, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES.

PAYMENT OF PENSIONS. This month pensions will be paid on October 25, the reason being that the usual day of the month for payment falls upon a Sunday, and Labour Day, a Departmental holiday, follows. Next month pensions will, as usual, he paid on the 23rd day. MANY TIMES. “ Little New Zealand should not worry about having the clock rdvanced by an hour for three months,” writes ” Ex-Canadian.” who states that Canada is a land of many times, and occasionally several operating simultaneously. There is a standard and officially checked time, but the different municipalities have the power to arrange their own particular clocks. WAR ON EELS. The extent to which eels are to be found in New Zealand rivers came up for discussion at the monthly meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Acclimatisation Society, when a letter was received from the Wellington Society, which stated that a movement was on foot | to institute a crusade on eels. It was proposed that all'eels taken would he' paid for in several ways. The would begin in November, when it was proposed that prizes would he given for the greatest number caught per month, . and for the heaviest eels.

MONKEY MUSIC. Voronoff, the man who monkeys with Nature and adds the glands of tho npc to worn human beings, causing them to put back the clock, tells tlis story of a fading American millionaire, who, on being rejuvenated, made the welkin ring with sweet song. Up to the time of his new youth he had been musically silent, but now be even sings in bis hath. The assertion of Mr H. N. Ridley of Kew (Zoo section), emphasises tbe musical relationship of monkeys J with rejuvenated millionaires. Here is what he says: “ The gibbons are famous for their song at sunrise, and the marvellous thing is that the notes they utter run up and down the scale perfectly. To hear them singing in unison across a valley is a weird experience.”. In a tropical zoo each male monkey had a harem of seven wives. If a female monkey was put in a cage of mixed monkeys it was the signal for an attack on her hy all members of her sex.