A Stoat and an Egg.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1939, Page 4

A Stoat and an Egg.

Stoats relish a diet of eggs, it is stated, but when they raid a fowl-house they usually eat the eggs nearby, leaving the shells as evidence of the raid. Driving near Eyreton recently, however, Mr E. A. Aitken (Christchurch) was surprised to see a stoat pushing a hen egg across the shingle road with its nose, apparently taking it to its nest. A Lost Ring.

In the dust in the bottom of the ventilator by the main door giving access to the auditorium of the Town Hall, Taihape, lies a gold ring valued at £l5 15s, which slipped from the finger of a woman as she was leaving the main body of the hall recently. She made a frantic effort to retrieve the ring before it fell through an opening in the ventilator, but was unsuccessful. Recovery of the ring will now be extremely difficult even if the top of the ventilator is removed, and it seems that it will have to remain in its present resting place. New Zealand Plants in Sweden.

Expressing appreciation for his election as an honorary (overseas) member of the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture in a letter to a recent meeting of the executive of the institute in Wellington, Professor Carl J. F. Skottsberg, Director of the Botanic Gardens, Gothenburg, Sweden, who visited the Dominion last year, wrote: “Our garden takes special interest in trying to grow New Zealand alpines —the only group likely to survive here —and I expect that some friends in the Dominion will provide us with seeds, allowing us to continue our experiments.” Auckland on Gold Coast.

Fresh milk is supplied to workers on the Gold Coast of Africa in frozen form, according to a letter recently received in Auckland from Mr Aston Hooper, son of Mr and Mrs Basil Hooper, of Shore Road, Remuera. Mr Aston Hooper, who is now stationed on the Gold Coast auditing and supervising accounts for a large London firm of chartered accountants, was for some years a member of the Auckland Young Men’s Christian Association and the Optimists’ Club. In his letter he states that the difficulty formerly experienced in obtaining supplies of food on the Gold Coast has largely been overcome by modern methods of refrigeration.

The official opening of the Masterton Catholic Table Tennis Club will take place in St Patrick’s Hall on Thursday, 18th inst. Members of kindred clubs are cordially invited.