NEWS AND NOTES.
At 2.15 on Sunday on Heads Road, near linlay, a race tools place between three sets of lunatics on wheels, namely, ,a motor-cyclist, the driver of (a Baby Austin, and another light oar. They passed everything on the road ahead, and other traffic who noticed them poming got well to the side. It is a pity says tiie Herald that one 'of the city inspectors did not happen to be in the vicinity at the time, as their racing career would have been suspended for a time. Visitors to Kapiti Island in the early part of last week had a trying experience owing to the roughness of the water. Three boats that had gone out with fishing parties from Paraparaumu were only able to return with great difficulty on Tuesday. Another party, which included ladies, stayed on Brown’s Island,
where there is a fishermen’s hut, to the. south of Kapiti, and endeavoured to make the crossing on Wednesday, but the weather had become worse, and after accomplishing two-thirds of the journey they were obliged to put bade. On Thursday, however, they were able to reach the mainland, and are fortunately none the -worse for their adventures. A resident of Charlton has two very fine cherry trees growing in his garden, relates the Southland “Times”). This season they were laden wi'th fruit, but had it not been for a piece of good fortune and the employment of a rather novel idea it is probable that the members of the feathered tribe would have derived the greatest amount of benefit from the “cherries ripe and red.” One day the resident referred to captured a h'awk in a rabbit trap and clipping i'ts wings tied it to one of the cherry trees. The plan worked admirably for a time, as whenever a smaller bird came near the hawk, would squawk and frighten it away. After a week or so, lioavevei’j the hawk freed itself by biting through the rope and was discovered fluttering around the garden. In order to prevent a repetition of this performance the resident decided to tie the rope round the hawk’s neck. This also w'orked well for a time, but one morning it was found that the bird had over-reach-ed and strangled itself—a clear case of isuicide. Nevertheless it had given its life in a noble cause, for by this time the cherries were ripe and ready for picking.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3901, 31 January 1929, Page 4
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403NEWS AND NOTES. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3901, 31 January 1929, Page 4
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