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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 August 1924, Page 9

An expedition to Siam on behalf of the New York Museum, says The Times, had the great good luck to get a specimen of the smallest mammal in the world, the pigmy shrew. This they..did about 28 miles south-east of Umpang. These little animals, half an inch at the shoulder, are so cunning and small that even a mouse trap is too big for them. The coal output from the mines of Groat Britain during the week ended June 7 was 5.120,2011 tons, as compared with 5,308.300 tons in the previous week and 5.05-1,3(H) tons in tin: corresponding week last year. The number of wage-earners in the week ended June 7 was 1,101,400.

Writing of a wonderful engineering work near Simla, the Sutlev ■ VallesCanal, the London Times’ correspondent records that the Gnndasineh Wafa headworks, near Ferozpore, have seen mneh advance. Last winter protective embankments weie made and excavations were carried out in the river lied. The rail was arrangements have progressed, and the stone trains are running full. The actual construction work begins this winter. ft is. noteworthy in the work that draglines, or mechanical excavators, said to he the largest in the world, are being used on the new colony canal. A third excavator is in course of erection.