LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 September 1931, Page 6

LATE LOCALS.

A paragraph regarding large hen eggs laid in the North Island has brought to light an example of a very large egg laid by a AVhite Leghorn hen belonging to,an Ashburton resident (says the Guardian). The other morning Air AV. Aloses, of AA’ills street west, brought to the office a hen egg that weighed exactly 4-joz. The egg was three inches and a-hnlf in length and seven inches in circumference. Mr Moses said that from hi® flock of AAHiite Leghorns he obtained double and threevolk eggs frequently.

Those who attended last year’s annual School Concert will remember the excellence of the production, and will be glad to know that arrangements for this year’s performance on September 16th. and 17th. are well in hand. The production is again in the hands of Alisa Duff, and ai fine evening’s entertainment is assured. Tickets, at very acceptable prices, ai’e now in circulation, and may be procured from pupils of the District High School. The box plan will open.. cm Thursday, September 10th., ait 10 a.m,, when dre-ss circle seats may he reserved for either performance.—Advt.

“On street and in tube we have found it useful to say.that we were two New •Zealanders, and we have been invariably met with one or two comments—the earthquake or cricket,” writes a Christchurch man from London. “A bookseller stopped wrapping a book while he discussed the possibilities of the New Zealanders getting another test ! a tailor nearly caused me to miss a train for the same reason; a uniformed messenger near the Law Courts, putting me on the right track, stopped unduly long on a safety island to t?ll me what he thought of New Zealand cricket ; and a hairdresser kept my nephew a full half-hour in his chair.”