MISCELLANEOUS.

Otaki Mail, 2 March 1923, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

Dr. Tiliyard, of the Cawthron Institute, Nelson, says: When ironbark poles are imported into New Zealand for telegraph or telephones, every piece ol bark hanking on them should be destroyed by fire.- No group of trees are subject to more pests than the eucalyptus. You have two bad eucalyptus pests now and you can't risk having any more. If you must have eucalyptus poles see that they are treated completely in Australia. Dr. French Oliver, who is conducting an evangelistic meeting in Hamilton, has a large vocabulary (says the Waikato Times), and he does not hesitate to use strong language. In his address on Sunday afternoon he classified some ministers and teachers as worse than pickpockets. He referred to Paine, Voltaire and Ingersoll as "a dirty gang,” while “rotten infidels” was a term applied to others whom he felt moved to scathingly castigate, and to thank God that there was a day coming when they would call upon the rocks and mountains to hide them. Mr W. B. Fearon, of Kaponga, gave a Manaia Witness reporter an interesting account of a walking tour which, in company with his sister, he has just concluded, from Onehunga to tirenui, a distance of 196 miles. The trip occupied ,16 days in all, but only ten days of actual walking time, a resting spell being taken at Kawhia. The travellers were charmed with the hot springs on the Kawhia beach, where one has only to scoop out the sand to obtain a natural hot sea bath. Travelling was good along the roads, only two rivers being unbridged, but these being crossed by punt and canoe. Mr Fearon is satisfied that tlie country right through to Mokau is getting back quickly into a thriving condition. Home separating was in evidence everywhere, the collecting lorries travelling as much as 40 miles in some directions to get the cream.