MISCEĹANEOUS.

Otaki Mail, 6 December 1922, Page 4

MISCEĹANEOUS.

liming the prohibitionist meeting hist Saturday evening an interjeelor openly extended an invitation lo Mr I'rice to come along to a two-up school on Sunday afternoon. Mr Price did not avail himself of the invitation; but the police evidently thought itie invitation was an open one. as they went along, much to the consternation of those present.—Shannon News.

It is Mated that when a Shannon constable waited on a local resident with a significant piece of blue paper having relation to the recent raid on the alleged two-up school, the latter made the cryptic remark that Ratana was not in it with the officer of the law as a healer. The constable asked for further light on the subject, and his informant said there was one man present who bad been doubled up with rheumatism- and various othpr complaints for some time, and only got about with difficulty, but when 'fhs constable appeared on the scene none of those present were able to head the sufferer off. —Shannon News. A Hamilton resident has rec? ved a letter from a friend at Roiorua, who, with ;! companion, Recently obtained permission to traverse rhe State Forestry Department's plantations in search oi deer. The correspondent states that., though the sportsmen only .succeeded in securing one animal, they came across ample evidence of damage done by .jeer in the plantations. One COi'i-acre plantation of Chestnuts, about seven years.old, with young trees about Sft high, had been cleaned out. the trees having been broken and the leaves and bark eaten. An adjoining plantation of piiius in-sig-ni.%. from 3ft to 7ft in height, had not, the writer states.", been " touched yet, bnt'will later oh; as just at .present Tise deer's horns ate growing, which prevents the::: from rubbing. Deer, he adds-, will rip the bark" off blue gums or nines up to 7ft high on the trunks,, and becoming an absolute curse in the "nursery and plantations. - .