PING-PONG

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 1 August 1924, Page 8

PING-PONG

Two very enjoyable evenings have been spent in the Wakefield Y.M.C.A. roztis this week. The local Y.M.C.A. team played Stoke on Monday night and were defeated by 31 games to 18, and 1296 points to 1150. On Wednesday night they met the Nelson Y.M.C.A. team and the match ended in a draw. Each team scored 36 games, tho points being 1842, Nelson 1799.

Do opposums eat small birds and their eggs? ft appears that there are various ways of finding out. At Monday night’s meeting of the council orf the Otago Acclimatisation Society, a letter was read from Mr G. W. M ‘lntosh, who is now in Wellington, in the course of which' ho asked if the society had worked up any evidence refuting the charge that opossums damaged the hush and killed, native birds. It would not do to let these accusations pass unnoticed. Mr Howes suggested that it might be a wise course .to get an analysis of the contents of the stomachs of some of the opossums taken by trappers, with the object of ascertaining whether the opossum” did eat small "birds and birds’ eggs, as alleged The president (Mr C. P. M. Butterworth) expressed tno opinion that the society might trap some opossums, and so get tho information desired. Finally it was decided to obtain all possible information on the subject from as many localities as possible. A peculiar freak of nature is to be seen on Mr S. Thomas’s farm at Ngahinepouri. Recenly a cow on his priperty gave birth to a oalf with two heads, two necks, and two backbones.