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§T. CLAIR CLUB. The following is the draw for the medal (L.G.U.) match to be played on the St. Clair links to-day:— • Seniors.—Mrs Wight v. Mrs Burnett, Mrs Butcher v. Miss Kay, Mrs Gilbert, v. Miss Schoen. Juniors.—Mrs Anderson v. Mrs J. H. Robertson, Mrs Jacobs v. Mrs Stirling, Mrs Hudson v. Mrs Smedley, Mrs W. T, Smellie v, Mrs Young, Mrs Osborne v. Mrs A. Smellie, Miss Martin v. Miss E. Watson, Mrs Wren v. Mrs Cameron, Miss Stewart v. Miss Shrimp ton, Mrs Knowles v. Miss Arnett, Mrs Hayward v. Mrs Wrather, Mrs Hazelwood v.Miss Loudon, Mrs Button v. Miss Goldsmid, Mrs Breeze a bye.
in New Zealand wrote: “ The Maoris have often seen the shining cuckoo at work. For. about eight months of the year they roamed the bush weekly, even daily. For days together a Maori would be perched on a tree from which he could see everything going on about him. He saw the shining cuckoo select a nest, and sometimes proceed to toss out the true owner’s eggs with its bill. It sometimes crushed them in doing so, and sometimes ate them. It laid its own eggon a stump, the barrel of a prone tree, or the leafy ground. It then took its egg and placed it in the nest. It -worked silently and quickly, and sometimes remained concealed in the vicinity, as if to see_ what the grey warbler would do with its egg. 1 never* heard a Maori say that the foster-mother tossed the intruding egg out of the nest.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20582, 4 December 1928, Page 2
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