Baboon Barks Like Dog

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5330, 18 February 1947, Page 2

Baboon Barks Like Dog

A bahoon with a bark like a dog's is the latest addition to the Wellington zoo. He arrived about a week l ago and is already skilled in begging tit-bits from his visitors. He is a medium-sized brown monkey, capable of a hearty yawn. Recent 'births at the zoo include eight Indian pigs and two fallow deer. The monkeys are very active in spite of the heat. The other animals also seemed well and active, though the tiger cubs, now nine weeks' old and doing well, choose to remain in the shadows of their ^den during the hot days. > Who Threw That Brick? When a brick was throw-n into the Te Aro baths to be dived for hy train- , ipg college students heing put through their swimming .paces, it hit a pupil on the head. The young man floated on top of the water unconscious. He was carried to a dressing cubicle for first-aid treatment. For some minutes there was still no sign of revival, hut the unconscious man regained his sen-ses, sprang to his feet, scattered the first-aid team and cried: "Who hit me?" China Has Housing Shortage: Becaoise of an acute housing shortage -Mr. Justice T. C. Davi^, -Canadian Amr' bassador to China, is taking four prefahricated houses to Nariking' to he used' as the Emhassy and staff living quarters. The -Canadian Government has already bought several acres of land in tNanlcing's diplomatic district, , together with ah amhassadorial residence.