NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4486, 2 August 1930, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

To the astonishment of his denlist and to Ids own sorrow, an Auckland business man is “cutting” bis teeth for the third time. Twenty years ago he shed Lis second lot of Iceih, and had a false set installed, lb* was quite satisfied with the artificial set until recently, when irritation under the plate was discovered to he caused by the appearance of another tooth. It is not uncommon, for people to grow three sets of teeth during a lifetime, .Lii 1 it is rarely that molars present themselves after such a. lengthy lapse of lime as a score, of \ cm rs.

A story, the truth for which was vouched for, was told io a Taranaki Herald reporter recently, of a man who was so anxious In gel on the unemployment register that lie gave his employer uni ice, so that be would have the necessary qualiliealiou for registration. If was staled 1 that the man -was in n k job, which returned him Hi/- a day, and while it was certainly not permanent. employment, there was no immediate prospeel of the work finishing, but the man evidently had an idea that if lie did uni gel his legist rat ion in early be might be 100 late if lie afterwards found himself onl of work.

Apart from the British football maleh. one of the most frequent 11, pies of conversation among Aucklanders just prior to last weekend was the hanging of Munn, which look place at Mount Eden Gatil on Tuesday morning. There was a good deal of speculation in the Queen City as to who the hangman would he, lor in matters of this sort enriosiiv is always aroused. A “Wanganui Herald” reporter last week while in Auckland was shown the man selected for the job by a colleague as he passed along Queen Street. It. appears that il is not the first occasion in New Zealand and in other places lliai his services have been availed of for this class of work.

AI least one Blenheim poultry lancicr has great .cause to complain of the treatment which one uf his birds received at the hands .if some vandal at the recent Nelson poultry show (says the Marlborough Express). This parlicular bird was entered in the Black Pekin hen class, and has won every time if lias been exhibited, including a New Zealand championship. She was .-cut to Nelson in perfect feather and condition, and was penned up safely by a Blenheim fancier. However. between that lime and .judging next morning, some “sport" bad been very busy, having pulled several feathers out of the centre of each wing, which, needless lo say, threw the bird out of the competition. The “phicker," whether a fancier or not, deserves to be disqmililird from entering future poultry shows. Some fanciers are wondering if il will lie safe to enter good birds in the flit lire.

.Members of the Provincial Kxci inivc of the Farmers Union at a recent meeting were discussing the extermination of stoats and weasels. 11 is not generally known that to a. Canterbury resident, belongs the doubtful honour of having assisted in bringing into New Zealand the weasel and Ihe stoat. Mr. Allhones hailed originally from (he English countryside, and was well acquainted with the playful ways of the twin pests, lie .secured a contract with the Government; for the delivery of a certain, number of the animals and a grateful country ■paid his fare lo and from England in return for (lie labour involved in mothering a consignment of weasels .'uid looking after them during the voyage. The first hatch to he liberated spread rapidly as far as the Soul hern Lakes, feasting richly on native birds instead of on the rabbits they were intended to destroy, -h was some lime before the fact broke upon the consciousness of the authorities, and when il did Air. Allhones's profitable littlo contract terminated abruptly.