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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16449, 10 June 1921, Page 8

Mr W. T 5. Carmichael, of Sydney, arrived in Christchurch' to-day from the north. He will leave for Dunedin by the midday express to-morrow.

The formation of a farmers’ political party was discussed at the Farmers’ Union conference to-day, and a resolution was carried unanimously that such a move at the present time was inadvisable. One shag lias two feet and one head. If the head is cut off, the operation does not affect the feet—-except from the point of view of tho shag (says the *’ Post ”). This may appear a statement of the obvious, but it is the important obvious to an acclimatisation society. A reward is paid for the destruction of shags upon production of something in the nature of a satisfactory death certificate. Most societies have decided that the certificate should take the form of two feet for each defeased bird-—one-footed shags are disqualified. It has happened, however, bhat a society has accepted the shag’s head as evidence of death. In that case it has not bepn unknown that a shag has had two lives, or, rather, for purposes of reward, two deaths. The feet have been forwarded to one society rood the bead to another. The Wellington Acclimatisation Society has been aoenstomed to pay for feet, and last nigiht it received a claim for a reward for some heads. The council decided that it could not depart from its general practice, since such departure might lead to cases of “ heads I win, feet you lose,” though there was no rjgestion of any such sharp practice the case under notice.