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Colonist, Volume L, Issue 12159, 6 February 1908, Page 3

An addition has been made to the Maori collection in the Auckland Museum by the well-known Roto ma guide Maggie Papakuia, who has always taken considerable interest in tbe relics there. She has forwarded two ancient and elaborately carved moutb-pieces for a taha calabash, which was used by tbe Maoris for holding preserved birds. These calabashes in olden times were extensively' used by the natives,, especially in the interior, and more particularly in tne Urewera district, where it was quite a common thiDg for great numbers .of pigeons and tuis to be slaughtered each season, and to be preserved in fat for winter use or for feasts.

THE BALTIC SEPARATOR IS A MONEYMAKER. i For capacity and clean skimming, there is no machine equal to the Baltic Cream Separator. , Its new special arrangement of feeding the milk to the separating planes is as superior to the split wing . system of other machines a3 the modern railway train is to the old stage coach. It is the most reliable machine, easy running, gives no trouble, and will pay for itself in increased output of butter. Write for further particulars and practical proof to J. B. MacEwan & Co., Ltd., sole agents, U.S.S, r .Co/-s Bnildings, Wellington.