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Otago Witness, Issue 3861, 13 March 1928, Page 50

A rare visitant to these parts is the native cuckoo (says tho Hawsra Star). A sample of the species, a pretty bird about the size of a parrot, with brown and white markings on back and breast, and with a long flowing tail, was caught on Mr R. Hicks’s farm, South road, a few days ago, and was brought into the Star office. As the bird has not taken kinaiy to captivity and will eat nothing, it has been released. Mr John Fisher, the president of the Waikato show, was very, outspoken in a speech in Hamilton about farmers and finance. He said: “The farmers are prosperous to-day. Some people say r they are hard up, but I say they are not. Just look around to-day and see how well they all look here,” and. he added, “the County Council of which I have the honour to be a member has had all its rates paid up.”