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Evening Star, Issue 15074, 4 January 1913, Page 1

The Government" have called for fenders for the f-ill automatic equipment for the telephone exchanges at Auckland. Weiiin"--tori, Blenheim. Hanilton, ?ifd Oar.iaru Tei.ders are to close, on Vfav 1 next. Three companies that manufacture apparatus of this kind have been invited to submit te.idr.is Fraud is practised in manv form* in I'ranee, but it js news that snails are receiving the attention of the tricksters It seems that snail frauds have become «j serious that a society has been formed to •stop it. It is called the "Syndicate- of the J rcparers and Dealers of Snails in France " As a comestible the snail has an enormous clientele. Snail,-, are sold by millions. But the consumers are not quite certain of the origin' of the snails thev eat. The fraud consists of putting the 'snails called the "little-greys" into the empty shells of Burcundy snails, which are 'of superior quality.-