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Shannon News, 30 March 1926, Page 3

"I went to the Zoo," related Elsie who recently visited the Auckland Zoo, "and I gave the elephant a bun. And—ooh! You should have seen him picket up with his vacuum cleaner!" . Among market people in England som'e weird weights and measures are well understood. A "trunk" of fish however, may vary in weight at different parts of the coast from 10st to 14st, and it is surprising what different meanings the same word may have. Fruit is often sold by "sieves" or "pots," but they vary not only according to th'e locality brrfc according to the fruit. A "pot", is of a capacity of about one and a half bushels, but varies in weight. In the case 6$ plums it is 721 b. while a "sieve" of the same fruit is estimated at 561 b. Potatoes, peas and onions are sold by the "bag/' but, while a bag of potatoes or onions is supposed to scale a hundredweight, peas need only be 801 b.