NEWS AND NOTES.
No action has so far been taken by the Ashburton No-license Council in moving against the applications that are to be made to the new Mid-lOanterlbury Licensing Comlmiittee for the granting of licenses to two of the Ashburton hotels.
The Inglewbod Eel Club has set up figures which they claim are a record in Now Zealand. For the past 10 weeks’ eeling 4547 eels have been caught (by members. The club hopes that by the close of the season, April 30, the total catch will have exceeded 8000. One thing which strulck a. certain Invercargill resident most forcibly during ja. holiday spent at Ste'wart Island was a penguin’s wing. A boat put ashore at Little Glory Harbour when the occupants saw a penguin of the yellow-headed tyipe on the beach. . The party set off in pursuit of the bint, and after an exciting chase through, the mutton bird scrub, the Invercargill resident succeeded in throwing his coat over the penguin, which although 'unajble to retaliate with its beak, .dealt its captor a resounding blow on the ear: with, one ’of its flippers.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3899, 26 January 1929, Page 1
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185NEWS AND NOTES. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3899, 26 January 1929, Page 1
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