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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 December 1940, Page 7

A church dignitary noticed a little girl weeping bitterly because she had lost a penny. Search for the lost money proving liseless he produced another to stay the tears and soothe the hurt feelings. "Oh." breathed the little one in a shocked tone. "You had it all the time.”

“Can you give me an exact description of the man you saw?" "Oh. yes, he was about average height, with very ordinary features and nondescript-col-cured hair. He was wearing the usual sort of clothes.”

The declaration of the Whangarei harbour as a sanctuary is welcomed by bird lovers. Some fine specimens of the blue penguin, diving and mo:tled petrel, red-billed gull, kingfisher, and the blue heron abound in the harbour and on its islands. A number of these birds have suffered from time to time from gunfire and posts. The official action taken for the making of the waters of the harbour a sanctuary is the outcome of a recent visit to Whangarei by the Minister for Internal Affairs (the Hon W. E. Parry), and a conference among the Minister, the local harbour board, and the acclimatisation society. "All are agreed that the official steps taken," Mr Parry said, “will result in the protection of the birds which form an added attraction to the bird lover visiting the picturesque Whangarei harbour and its islands.”