Shark Served to Customers.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1940, Page 4

Shark Served to Customers.

The Minister of Hearth, Mr FitzSimons, said in the Legislative Assembly in Sydney that food inspectors would investigate an allegation that some restaurants in Sydney were serving shark to customers as choice fish because of the fish shortage. He was replying to a member who had asked whether he would see that the people were not imposed upon in that way. Influenza Among Whippets. Whippets in Christchurch are at present suffering from an epidemic of pneumonic influenza. There was to have been a race meeting held by the New Brighton Whippet Racing Club at Bower Park on Saturday afternoon, but it had to be cancelled because the epidemic is affecting 60 per cent of the whippets and is in many cases causing death. Farming to Programme. “Farming at the college is done to a programme, and if you don’t farm to a programme, you ought to,” said Professor E. R. Hudson, director of Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, at a gathering of farmers at the college. "We draw up a programme every year, and, having drawn it up, we never stick to it,” he said, amid laughter. “The point is that we draw up a programme of what we will do if conditions are favourable. It often has to be modified, and therein lies much of the charm and interest of farming, and much of its uncertainty, too. Police Powers. The military authorities state that a number of men have raised objections when asked by police constables for particulars of their residential qualifications. No action has yet been taken in these cases, but it has been pointed out that the National Service Emergency Regulations empower the police to make these inquiries. Failure to comply with the requests made by constables renders the man liable to a heavy penalty. It has also been pointed out that failure to notify any change of address after enrolment in the General Reserve makes a man liable to a penalty of £lOO or twelve months' imprisonment.