GENERAL NEWS.

Otaki Mail, 29 August 1930, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS.

A Khaki Campbell duck at Melbourne laid 123 perfect eggs in 122 days, (smashing all world records. It may seem extraordinary, but is nevertheless a fact, that quwnat salmon can be sent all the way from Canada and sold to fish retailers in New Zealand at Is Od per lb without the head, whereas New Zealand quiunat costs 2s 3d per lb., plus the head. Mr J. K. Veale, manager of the JRuaroa dairy factory during last season, has been awarded"the Control Board's prize for elieesemakiug with the very line average of 94-225. Mr Veale has been managing "the Oroua Downs factory since the beginning of the present season.

"Last season the directors decided to build up a reserve fund and oneejafctb of a penny per, pound was deduced from the payments for that purpose/' gl.ated Mr NeiT Campbell jw the annual meeting of shareholders or ?the Awahuri Dafry Company. « | good years provision most bfl, niaae { against bad times."

Zane G?.ey has cancelled his proposed visit to Auckland in; December next. He had intended to use Mercury Island as a base camp dujiog the swordfisking season, but has now decided not*to come to New Zealand until his yacht, the Fisherman, is ready to again cross the Pacific, probably in the 1931'' season. ':'"'

Within a few months, tic whole of Chris tahaich ■will be xetiealateft with sewers. THs wojrk has been ja progress fox six years, and, in that time 160 miles 'of sewers, costing, with the accessary pumping equipment, about £V 250,000, have been laid, says the Times. During Jfho period that the sewers have beejt : HJideiV'jeonsitHctio'u, : a 'great Uea'i lias been learned p£ the conditions beneath the surface uf the ground in the city/awl suburbs, litjfl. ees subterranean streams wore struefe, while in others, portions of a buried' forcsl were located. Ono of the great-c-sfi ■' -'Biflißuliiea:' enedonie'red ,■ was rim-' ning sand, widen-required apeuial pumps ja order,.to deal-Wish it. . ;