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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 29 September 1926, Page 7

A Wanganui farmer is credited by an exchange with saying: “I have just heard of a district up-river in which the .settlers along a stretch of eight miles of road have in the past five months shot. 3000 pigs, and a mg eats as much grass as a sheep, and he or slie also eats lambs. For .a long time .1 was sceptical on this question, but experiences of this lambing have quite convinced me of the fact that P'gs of both sexes kill and eat lambs, not only while they are helpless just after they are born,' but up to a week old. In the district of which I speak about, a. settler whose farm joins an abandoned section icounted 20 lambs in one paddock. Next morning at daybreak there was not one mangled lambs in plenty, and bleating mothers all over the place. And the difiioult part of getting at the cause of the trouble is that the pigs are all nocturnal workers.” A b ranc h of the Performing Eights Association has recently been formed in New Zealand. It is a branch of a parent body in England which handles authors’ interests in their productions. Certain communications have been received in Stratford inviting applications for licenses of- compositions. Messrs .T. C. Williamson handle most of the copyrights, of theatrical pieces in Australasia. The new concern includes in its business collecting fees for songs and lesser compositions than have hitherto been generally handled. It is expected that the' operation of the new association will be for the benefit of amateur societies in New Zealand. It is not thought probable that the copyrights applied in their strictest sense will make any modification to the scope of the activity of any of the Hawcra societies. For children's hacking coughs, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.—Advt.