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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 4, 5 July 1922, Page 6

AD three lecturers at tile, Alpine Club meeting last evening referred to the kea as the humorist of the mountain ranges of the South Island. Mr. A. P. Harper detailed several instances where the curiosity and mischievqusness of these birds'had proved a nusiance whilst he was oh the slopes of the Southern Alps. He instanced one ■ case where two , keas had discovered a "billy" on 'a bench, arid had gradually pushed it along until they finally spilt its contents. At the conclusion he said that on one occasion he had been asUcd to bring back two live keas. To fulfil this request Tie left a bag open, and a kea walked in. The bird • apparently desired to impress his friends, and he induced another kea to also investigate the.inside of the bap:, finally encouraging two others to similarly "try their luck." Mr. Harper thereupon shut them all up in ' the bag. "When I opened the bag," concluded the narrator. VI found the kea dead who had induced the other three to enter into captivity." Mr. Malcolm Ross later on said that a kea persisted in gazing at the camxj-firo, and finally its curiosity impelled it to lift a hot cinder from the edgft in its beak. Loud were the squaks of the bird as a-result, and it flew some distance away, where its cries collected a largo number of its own ilk, who all, chattered loudly and apparently "passed a vote of censure on the human beings who had invaded their sanctuary."

False teeth for dogs are beinfj adverliseel in Berlin veterinary establishments. 'Tho yeterinariea oiler to outfit aged dog's af. a. modcr.it© price, "without operation." The concert in connection with the Ngaio Old Girls' Club, postponed: from Bth May. will bo held in the Methodist Church, Ngaio, on Saturday evening next; at 7.45. Tickets issued tor tho former date will be accopted. . Messrs. A. G. Wallace and Co. will sell to-morrow, at 12 noon, at their salerooms, 15. Blair-street, one Mitchell molor truck.