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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16736, 18 May 1922, Page 6

Three bens—a Whit© Leghorn, a Black Orpington, and a Minorca-—be-longing to a Masterton resident, recently underwent an endurance test, and two of them emerged to prove that though three meals a day may be necessary to stimulate n hen’s egglaying instincts, a bird can sustain hie for a considerable period on the memories of past crop-filling repasts, remarks the Wairarapa “Age.” The hens in question were missed just before Easter, and it was surmised that they had proved the centre of attraction of an illicit Eastertide dinner. However, fifteen days later they were discovered underneath a gin case in a fowlhouso. Apparently they had been standing on the edge of the box. which turned over, imprisoning them. The edge of the box fell on the Minorca, and she was dead, but not otfeiirivelv so. The other two recovered after few Hi- • careful IYeAG.c