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Otago Witness, Issue 3097, 23 July 1913, Page 38

While un at Mokau last week Mr M Nab came across the Maori cannibal oven -winch recently the Forestry Commission, reported having found. It is situated on a long sandspit near the river. Mr M Nah brought away a number of human bones for the local museum, also some of the oven “tones Tim bones arc mostly marrow hones i-i.iif] all wore split. The oven has hc'-n covered up for many years by sand, and a storm evidently exposed it. Though scab lias long boon eradicated from the sheep of New Zealand, the tick B ,ill flourishes. Mr C. 11. Knsor, of North Canterburv, speaking at the Farmers’ Conference. estimated the loss on the wool product of the dominion through the tick at Id a lb. or £600,000 a year at present prices. Nlr C. J. Rcakes. Government Veterinarian, suggested that tile loss was duo in a great measure to improper and insufficient dipping..