ALDERSHOT TATTOO FIREWORKS FOR NEWTOWN PARK

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1927, Page 15

ALDERSHOT TATTOO FIREWORKS FOR NEWTOWN PARK

the sheep restricted, and the opossums thinned, the undergrowth is coming away vigorously wherever the light can penetrate, and groves and thickets of young trees and seedlings are flourishing everywhere, tho many former patches of open bush disappearing. Kapiti is becoming more and more a real sanctuary, and its pristine greenness is quickly being restored, Mr. "Wilkinson helping also by planting trees here and there and helping Nature wherever possible.

It is known that several of the birds on Kapiti -visit the mainland when the flowers there are in bloom; it is also known that of the tui that go many do not return, but remain on the mainland. A great advantage, therefore, of having these sanctuaries scattered about New Zealand, is that they act as .nurseries from which the greater part of Now Zealand may again be replenished with our characteristic birds; and if they are encouraged and left unmolested, as they are at Kapiti, then the people of New Zealand generally may experience the enjoyment I experienced during my three "weeks of real holiday. These notes wore written with a view to transmitting Kimo of that enjoyment to such as cSTo for these things, and I believe them to be many. .

are the Cephalopoda, to which belong the squids, cuttlefish, and octopods. Others are sluggish dwellers on the bottom of the sea or of rivers and lakes, their gills transformed into two largo flat plates capable of elaborate folding, and functioning as sieves for sorting out food particles in the water. These are called the Lamellibranchia. Another group, the Gastropods, is characterised by a peculiar asymetry of the principal organs and exhibits tho-con-dition known as "torsion." These molluscs have a single spiral shell and aro one of the most successful and numerous classes in the animal kingdom. They show great adaptability and are tho only molluscs that have succeeded in populating dry land. A fourth class —the Scaphopoda—is represented by a small but characteristic group with a tubular shell, which is adapted to burrowing in the sand of the sea bottoms, and possessed of a cylindrical foot. Finally, the fifth class, the Amphineura, are marine animals oi sluggi3h habit, r.iost. of which are covered by a shell divided into eight plates. Of course, there are exceptions to those definitions. All the Cephalopoda are not strong, vigorous creatures, but some aro actually delicate and holpless, while in the Amphineura are included two groups of long, worm-iike molluscs,