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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 105, 28 January 1929, Page 6

The few people in New Zealand who own civil aircraft will have to get busy very soon with paint and brush, printing new registration letters on the wings and fuselages of their machines (states the Christchurch “Sun”). Up to the present,’ civil aeroplanes in New Zealand have used the letter “N.Z.,” followed by a dash, and then two more letters. The authorities in England, however, have decided that New Zealand’s aeroplanes shall have a new lettering, and the Wakefield gift Moth, recently assembl at Wigram Aerodrome, bears the letters ZK-AAA. The other two new Moths are NZ-AW and NZ-AX, but before they go out to the clubs they will be repainted on the new principle. Presumably they will be ZK-AAB and ZK-AAC. Military aircraft, are not affected, as they are not lettered in this way at all.

Shark's teeth are occasionally found while quarrying for lime at Browns in the Winton district (states the Southland “Times”). One recently unearthed at a depth of 25 feet was in a perfect state of preservation, the enamel shining with a brilliance seldom found in human teeth. How many thousand years these teeth have, lain buried is a problem that may be left to geologists.