NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2633, 15 September 1923, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

The Auckland Acclimatisation Society paid out £OO in rewards during tile season for the conviction of three persons for shooting ducks. During the coming fishing season the society is offering a reward of £3O for the first conviction obtained with regard to faking or killing fish by means of explosives.

Who will say the Scots have no humour, after these howlers from the Oban High School Magazine? To one question: “What are warmth producing foods?” the answer was given: “Cayenne pepper and Jamaica ginger.” After the question: “If the Premier died, who would officiate?” another materialist added: “The Undertaker.” Other bits of information given were that “men are what women marry,” and that “herrings go about the sea m shawls. —Exchange.

According to the Wnimale Wit - nes>, Air J. ftlinger, t'orenin 11 of Iln* water and drainage works, has devised an ingenious method of laying Ilia pipes under the tarred roads and streets, which will obviate the destruction of the road surfaces. Instead of the old method of digging trenches, Air Rlinger’s gangs attach n boring- apparatus to tlie house supply pipes, which carries them under the road to the side where the mains are laid. The value of this idea can he easily understood. A man employed on the Peel St. bridge works at Gisborne, had a remarkable escape from an unpleasant death a few days ago (relates the Poverty Bay Herald). He and several others were engaged in removing the casing from one of the piers when he lost his balance and fell into the mud. Fortunately he fell on his feet, and sank into the mud up to his thighs, the task of extricating him being a lengthy one. Had he fallen any other way than on his feet, he would probably have been suffocated before he could have been removed from the mud.