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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 212, 22 August 1927, Page 4

Do You Know ?

Test your general knowledge by supplying answers to the tollowing four questions. The correct answers will be published in our next issue and a oomparison should prove interesting. A further senes of questions and answers will be published daily.

(1) Who is this?

(2) What is the name of the tradi tional country from which the Maori came? (3) Who was the author of “Rule Britannia”? and wliat is the first line of the chorus? (4) What is meant by a “leading question”?

Miss Barbara Pinckney left Hastings this morning on a visit to her sister, Mrs Reeves, of Johsonville. A self taught tea “circus” is to be sedfi ou Messrs Jackson Brothers’ station at the head of the Waihopai Valley, Marlborough. In a roomy wire-nettled pen are two tame keas which are kept as decops for culling their sheep-killing brethren within range ox fne rifle. In addition to serving this useful purpose the birds do a little entertaining, naving on their own initiative, worked up a neat circus turn. The principal performer is the hen. which is a clever acrobat, while the male is the clown of the show. From a standing position the hen throws herself backward, making a perfect loop and landing gracefully on her feet. After repeating this performance half a dozen times she struts off the stage. Then enters the clown, whose attempts to emulate Ills mate’s gyrations are exceefllng.y ] O . dicrous. He is an earnest trier, out his nearest approach to a somersault is a couple of backward hops, which sually land him on his tail. Having made a laughing stock of himself is hustled off by the hen, when then goes gracefully through her evolutiofis again without a h ’ch