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Otago Witness, Issue 3957, 14 January 1930, Page 63

Evidently the popularity of cricket has received a fresh impetus on account of the" visit of the M.C.C. team, if one is to judge by a sight witnessed by a passerby on one of the borough reserves the other night (says the Southland Daily News). Mixed doubles in lawn tennis and mixed bathing have been long in vogue, but mixed cricket is surely something of an innovation in Invercargill. The “unfair” sex would scarcely be surprised at the entry into any sport of the modern girl, but in this ease the participants in the game had passed the first bloom of youth, yet obviously possessed all the enthusiasm of that stage for a new’ game. The outfit employed wag scarcely the orthodox one used by cricketers generally, but this small detail did not appear to affect the pleasure of the members of the eleven in the slightest degree. Motorists who have occasion to go into the country at the present time may wonder what is the nature of the transparent sticky substance which, after a few hours’ run, is frequently found attached to the windscreen of a car (remarks the Christchurch Press). This material is honey, and its presence on the wind screen is due to the fact that bees, heavily laden as they are with the product of their labours, are unable to get out of the way of an approaching car, the impact with the vehicle causing them to lose the honey, the insects themselves falling to the ground. Further evidence of the havoc done by motor vehicles among bees is to be seen on the radiator, in the mesh of which it is not uncommon to find numbers of dead insects. Flies and moths meet their death by similar means, especially at night. Even birds, which are faster in their flight, are not safe against the speed of a car proceeding along a country road.