NEWS IN BRIEF

Opunake Times, 14 October 1941, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

Good. Pries for Raboit Skins One of the most remarkable fur 'seasons in the history of Otago is appraachiiiof its close. ..Up to the con-clus-ion of the large sale held on Tuesday at Dunedin f some 15,000,000 rabbit skins had been sold for the season and experienced and amateur rabbiters alike have received remarkable rewards for their efforts, the total return being' in. the vicinity of £1,250,000 (New Zealand currency). Extremely high prices have been paid for highcountry full winter skins and .types suitable for the hatters' industry have been eagerly competed for by the agents representing furriers in London, Now York and Canada. A Fowl Returned A new angle to a chicken-stealing story was given by Dr. D. E. Hansen, principal of the Christchurch Technical College, to a meeting of the college board. Recently, Dr.''Hansen said, a marauder had climbed the netting fence of the fowlyard at the college hostel at Ensur Bond, and had "got away with hens, coops, eggs and all." "Wo are now wondering," Dr. Hansen added, "whether this will be similar to last year's occurrence, when some pereon got away with fowl and eggs, and later, apparently when the chickens had been 'weaned,' returned the fowl."