NEWS AND NOTES.
“Opossums are going to he a worse pest that rabbits,” remarked a member at the last meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Acclimatisation Society (reports the Daily Telegraph)'. He stated that a settler in the Whakarara district had his garden stripped of vegetables by tile rodents, who had also eaten his orchard out. “They even took a hunch of carrots off his hack doorstep,” he remarked. The opinion was expressed that it would pay* the Society to issue trapping licenses and it was accordingly decided to make the necessary inquiries. ,
“If you wish to he one of the lucky ones in life, you must understand that luck always conies from hard work,” said Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Hamilton Magistrate’s Court, when James Park, aged 20, an assisted immigrant, appeared for sentence on a charge of stealing £9 18s 9d from Renton Bros., Tautapu, The magistrate added that from reports of the Salvation Army and probation officer, lie understood accused had been “running a hit wild” lately. Success would not come from pleasureseeking, he said. Accused was admitted to probation for two yeais.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3763, 6 March 1928, Page 1
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186NEWS AND NOTES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3763, 6 March 1928, Page 1
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