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Otago Witness, Issue 3958, 21 January 1930, Page 75

A remarkable case has just come to light o£ a Alarlborough farmer, who, owning two farms, sold one of them live years ago. but has been paying land tax ever since on the one that he sold, which, incidentally, was the dearer of the two (says the Express). Apparently the Taxation Department transferred the wronz property in its books, and the fanner had never thought to compare his land tax notice with, his local body rate demand-, or he would have discovered the disparity in the valuations. .Among the gifts recently made to the Dominion Museum are an iron mere, a bone maripi or shark’s-tooth knife handle, and a whale-oil trypot. The iron mere was evidently made by Maoris by laboriously filing down a piece of iron obtained from one of the early trading vessels. The handle of the shark’s-tooth knife is made from whalebone, and is carved according to Maori fashion. Iron trypots were used by the whalers in the early days in connection with the production of whale oil.