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Mataura Ensign, 25 January 1912, Page 4

nie latest application of the X-rays ! is to dentistry. The secrets of the teeth j —whether they are decayed or healthy, or whether they have been properly attended to—all are revealed by the X-ray photographs which can now be taken by dental surgeons. An American consul-r report states that in Tacohow a <<>" respondent s»w some strange industries. Ono was the keeping of large stags, as big as a fair sized horse, reared for Ihe sake of their horns, which are cut off every summer and sold for as much as £7 for use as medicine. The horn is soft, and the softer it is when removed the higher the price realised. The other was th© rearing of the inaehi, a sort of large pheasant; ihe tail feathers of which are very valuable, as they are needed, for tho dress hats of mandarins. '