NEAR AND FAR

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 131, 26 January 1932, Page 4

NEAR AND FAR

Solitary Sliining Cuekoo. A solitary shining cuckoo has been making.its headquarters in the fruit trees in a Tatuanui garden for tbe last few weeks. This bird was feeding on the leaches on the plum trees. The shining cuckoo spends the summer in New Zealand and migrates to the Pacifie Islands before winter sets in. It is smaller than a thrush, -and has distinctive brown and white stripes on its foreast and a glossy green plumage on the back. A bird of this description has been seen in a garden in Studholme Street. Warning Against Portable Appliances The accidental elecferocution of a . Dunedin youth while he was shaving in a bath last week has been made the occasion for the city electric power and lighting department to issue the foll owing warning: — The corporation inspectors frequently some across such cases, and it is necessary to issue a warning to consumers to be careful in the use of all, portable appliances. If there is the slightest suspicion of a shock being received when handling such appliances, the department should be notified without delay. You never know when someone else may us© the faulty appliance in a position where a more severn or even fatal shock may result. Never use portable appliances of any sort in a bathroom. The evidence at the inquest should be studied carefully, as it is certain that many people are taking risks which they fail to appreciate. Envy of the Dominion. "Nelson is apparently the envy of the rest of the jDominion at the present time," said a Nelson resident who is visiting Christchurch, to a reporter, "because it seems to be the place that has been least affected by the depression. But, so far as the farmers of the provinee are concerned, it is mainly attributable to one fact — that the banks have not regarded fruitgrowing very favourably and consequently few advances have been made to the growers, who have had to worry along with what little money they could serape together. Now that other people are feeling this lack of bank advances, Nelson is almost on its feet and intends to stay there."