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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 191, 3 August 1908, Page 2

The ancient Jluoris killed largo numbers of buias, but their depredation* wore not sullicient to chock the bird's increase, ami when European* eiiine to the country hulas wore well represented in the districts they frequented, There lived nt C'nstlepoiut thirty or forty yenrs ago nil eccentric old eliief and toImnga named Pipimoho. He was »up|io«eil to lie the only person in thilt part ot Wie province who knew where many huias could be found und how they ought to he caught. One who knew him states that for many yearn huia-hunting wm his only occupation, and regularly oncu or twice a year he went from the const, to the inland forests to obtain tailfeathers for the ]iriucipul chiefs of llnwku's liny, who were his fMperiuVa ill rank. A casual eiiss is the average parson. Ivast week a Victorian backblocks uiinwter, driving churchward", tell out of Ins gig, and the wheel passed over him. All limiv later lie was in the pulpit giving sntan Hades with extraordinary fervour (says the ltnlletin). A while before an Kssendon preacher ran for a train an it moved otV, and, unnoticed, fell between two carriages on to the buffer*. When the next station was reached he coolly stepped on the platform, minus most of his clothes, and proceeded on his W'iy rejoicing, with a view to giving BoeleiJbub Iwans, as usual. Such happening lessen the public wonderment over tlift fact that in a single denomination nt the Cabbage State there are a score of parsons still drawing the superannuation allowance aft*j a retirement at - tin