SECOND EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16869, 26 October 1925, Page 14

SECOND EDITION.

The Governor-General and Lady Ferguson on Wednesday, October 28th, will leave Wellington for the South Island, going into resident.*; at Dunedin during file greater part of November. They do not expect to return to the North Island until about Christmas. In order to counteract the inroads of insect pests among the icanefields and cocoa nut plantations of Fiji, it has been decided to introduce some carefully selected birds, which have been deiided upon after a. long and careful scrutiny Inexperienced scientific officials.

A collision between a motor-car driven by Mr. Parke Pillar, dentist, of Hamilton, and a cycle ridden by a schoolgirl, Myrtle Lees, occurred at the corner of Victoria and Bridge streets, Hamilton, on Thursday morning. The cycle was knocked over and smashed, and the girl was liadlv bruised and suffered from shock.

Mr. R. Wykr, of .Maslerton, lias accepted the position of bandmaster to the Gisborne City Band, and will take ever bis new duties at an early date. Mr. Wvke is at present in charge of the Maslerton Band and has had considerable experience both in England and New Zealand. He spent some time in Gisborne recently and made the acquaintance of band members.

“The Hen Islands,” writes Mr Jl. Hamilton, of the Dominion Museum, in an article that appears in the September number of the Journal of Science and Technology, is one of the few remaining spots in New Zealand that preserves in its entirety a virgin forest and a primeval fauna. The nearby Little Barrier Island sanctuary, although shetlering a larger avian fauna, has been defiled by introduced mammals and planks." Mr Hamilton adds later in his article: “The chance of preserving a little hit of old New Zealand for New Zealand should not be allowed to pass through lack of foresight and some slight efforts at administration.”