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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 259, 2 August 1928, Page 9

Argentine is recognised as the rival of New Zealand iu the frozen meat trade, but a paragraph in a South African newspaper, if it can be true, gives an instance of one of the methods employed by our South American friends (says the “Southland Times”). The paragraph alleges: “From Punta Arenas, half-way through the Straits of Magellan, 2,000,000 carcases of sheep and lamb are exported to the British Isles each year and sold as ‘Canterbury lamb.’ Punta Arenas numbers about 20,000 inhabitants and of them 1500 are said tc be British. The occupations of the Europeans are fanning the gold-bearing beaches of Terra' del Feugo and sheep farming.” A mountain specimen of a Nelly petrel, shot at Lake Ellesmere, has been presented to the Canterbury Museum by Mr. W. Skelton Walton (states the Christchurch “Press”). Mr. A. V. White-Parsons, of Lyttelton, has given a South Sea Island specimen of a coconut crab.