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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 July 1938, Page 6

Dead Wallaby on Front Lawn. Parties of Waimate sportsmen who visited the range reported recently that the wallabies on the Hunter Hills were shifting to lower levels in search of food, but many residents of Waimate did not realise how close the animals were until one morning a resident found a dead wallaby lying on his front lawn. A large specimen,' the wallaby was in excellent condition, but was wounded in the neck, and fur on other parts of the body was torn. It is thought that the wallaby was wounded by a shot and made for the town after being attacked by dogs attached to a shooting party. A Use for Old Trees. While the lover of the forest sees much to disapprove in modern methods of timber milling, close observers have noticed that there is less unnecessary destruction of trees than in the past, says a visitor to the South Auckland district. In parts of the Rotorua area he noticed men with bags of wedges and axes splitting posts and battens in bush country where the trees had been thinned out years ago, and were now too sparse for commercial milling. Fallen trunks, which at one time would have been burned as the quickest and easiest method of removing them, were now converted to meet the needs of the Native and Lands Departments, the Highways Board, private farmers and local bodies, who required large numbers of .posts for development.

Speak No Members of the legal profession in Christchurch are chuckling at the story of a comment made by a judge of the Supreme Count at another centre. A dreary civil action concerning grain and the damage done by weevils in grain had dragged on laboriously for two days. Counsel and everybody else connected with the case were fed up with grain and weevils. His Honour took his place on the Bench on the third morning, bowed formally to counsel, and remarked: “Speak no weevil, hear no weevil, see no weevil.” A Soldier's Misfortune. To have passed through a period of active service in the war in Spain unscathed apart from a minor foot injury before returning to New Zealand, and then to be crushed beneath his caravan, was the misfortune of Lieutenant Thomas Spiller, of the International Brigade, who is visiting Gisborne. He was carrying out some adjustments beneath his motor caravan when the vehicle slipped off the jack and he was pinned beneath the differential. Assistance was rendered by several friends, who experienced some difficulty in freeing the injured man. They found that they were not able to place the jack in position again, but, with the assistance of a passing motorist and the aid of another type of jack, they soon lifted the vehicle clear. Lieutenant Spiller’s injuries were not of a very serious nature, but required treatment in hospital for several days.