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Shannon News, 21 April 1922, Page 3

Fishing is not like farming. The fanner can reckon pretty weJl what his crops are going to yield, hut the fisherman merely guesses. The East Coast fishermen, for instance, guessed that they would he visited in the middle of . last September by herrings; but the herrings did not- come. Then, when all hope had been relinquished, the herrings turned up one day—some 28,000,000 of them! Perhaps the late summer had made them lose count of the calendar and delay their visit. Fishermen who'had been looking glum' returned with beaming . faces. Three hundred and fifty boats, after dreary days of waiting, came back with loads averaging 'BO cyans each—that is 80,000 herrings. Some boats had more, one' bringing in 200,000 fish. The total fish landed in--one day equalled 28,OOv?JOO, with mi y lions more to follow.

The latest Melba yarn circulating in London has it that the song bird, turned up unexpectedly at a charity cafe chantant, and the hon. organiser in doing the amiable nearly fell over herself. “Everyone wants to hear you sing badly,” she burbled. “Then they won’t,” said the Dame, “because I can’t.” !

“The injection of anti-pneumonic serum, if made early enough, would result in the s’aving of practically every pneumonia patient,” declared Dr. Cowan Guthrie, in a speech et the Royal Colonial Institute on the advance of medical science throughout the Empire. Dr. Guthrie is a rTarley Street specialist. Hundreds of acres on the high lands round Mount Ruapehu are at present a sea of pink —the heather in bloom. The spread of this plant is being regarded with concern in the district, as it is killing the small vegetation with its prolific growth.