NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2977, 19 December 1925, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

A Palmerston North resident received rather a pleasant surprise recently when from a setting of 12 eggs 13 healthy chickens were hatched (says the M.D. Times). Many reasons were advanced in an endeavour to solve the mystery. The eggs had all been marked and were counted each evening, as other feathered members of the fowlyard often succeeded in depositing an extra egg among the sitting in the absence of tins “cluekor” in quest of food. The only feasible solution. which offered was a doubleyolked egg had been aioyng the setting, and this accounted for the welcome addition to the brood.

It is generally recognised that the supplies of oil are ehielly in the hands of such huge concerns as the Standard Oil Company and the Royal Dutch group of which the British Imperial Oil Company is a. subsidiary marketing organisations (says Hie Auckland Star). These companies, state's a leading importer, operate throughout the world, and, as with trusts in other lines of commerce, they occasionally fall foul of each other. This is said (o he tho real cause for the reduction in the price of petrol in New Zealand. Statistically and economically, I here was no justification for the reduction. Prices have not recently been reduced in the United States whence most of our stocks are obtained.