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Otago Witness, Issue 4048, 13 October 1931, Page 74

The long-drawn call of the shining-back cuckoo, or, as the Maoris call it, the pipiwharauroa, was heard recently by a Northcote resident, who, after careful watching, saw the speckle-grey breast and bronzed-green wings of the bird flitting round the branches of a tree (relates the Auckland Star). The shining-back cuckoo, also the koheperoa, or long-tailed cuckoo, make an appearance about Auckland in September. Most of the cuckoos leave New Zealand in the autumn of the year to spend the winter in the South Sea Islands. There are occasional laggards who stay in the Dominion all the year. . “ The elevating effect of good pictures in schools is not fully recognised,” said the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, at a private view of fine arts in Wellington recently. (says an exchange). “Nothing should I like better than to see an effort made to place in everj’’ primary and sccor ’ v school in this Dominion e a good rep.eduction of at least one beautiful and inspiring world-famous picture.”