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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11252, 3 July 1922, Page 6

A bushman’e term that has puzzled many students of the names of our native trees is “kai-kok." This is what the honeycomb-totara has been labelled. As far as can be ascertained, the name is a corruption of “kai-kaka,” literally kaka-food, probably alluding to the well-known habit of this bird of searching the trunk of the tree for grubs.— “Te Karere o Tane.”

A Dunedin solicitor who is at present visiting Master-ten, states that the rate of interest on first mortgages in Otago has never been more than from 6 to 6$ per cent., whereas in Masterton it is 7 per cent. This difference is accounted for by the fact that Otago did not experience the same inflation of values during the boom that the Wairarapa had.

"Do you see that car load of young ladies over there ? They are the finest specimens of womanhood that have over left Genalon Caves Hostel.” This observation was made by Mr J. S. Cormook, Director of Tourists in New South Wales, to a member of a party on a visit to tho Blue Mountains recently. The young ladies in question were members of the New Zealand Tennis team who recently visited Sydney and they well deserved this spontaneous tribute, remarked Mr T. C. List, of New Plymouth (who was at Genalon at tho time), at a chamber of commerce luncheon there.

The Dunedin City Council has agreed to combine with the Returned Soldiers’ Association in finding suitable work for soldiers who are out of employment. Extensions to the Botanical Gardens are to be undertaken. Tho Returned Soldiers’ Association are to supply tho funds.