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Otago Witness, Issue 4039, 11 August 1931, Page 67

Mr J. Webber, of Kapiti Island, who lias great opportunities for watching the breeding of- grey duck in the sanctuary there, estimates that about 90 per cent, of the ducklings do not reach maturity, ihe loss is attributed largely to water rats, as the remains of many voting ducks have been unearthed from their boles. The growth of an evangelical revival was referred to by the Rev. Lionel B. Fletcher, who has returned from a tour of Canada, the United States and Britain, at a public welcome in Auckland. The speaker said that the movement was sweeping through Italy. Poland, Russia, Germany, and Czecho-Slovakia. A wave of _ religious feeling was passing over Britain, and be would be prepared to conduct, a similar mission throughout New Zealand.