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Wairarapa Age, 14 March 1929, Page 6

Whale flesh was a recognised article > of food during the fifteenth and' sixf teenth centuries. In England whale ' was either roasted and served on the J r spit or boiled and served with peas. • The tongue and tail were the favouri ite -parts. r The loners £s. di. represent the Latin l words librae, solidi, denarii, meaning 1 pounds, shillings pence. It nas long 1 been, the practice to cross the capital 5 L with one or two short horizontal t lines, but who began this is not known. ? Pipa toads, which have recently ar- : rived at the London Zoo- from South i America, are so- thin thot one can sec through them. Ihe eggs, numbering up to TOO, are taken by the male and . deposited in cavities in the mother’s p back. t Now that two radio sets have been p provided on the island of St. Kilda—--5 the largest of the Outer Hebrides ; group—its population l of about. 45 * oeoplc will no longer be cut off from _ the world from Setenher to April, as i was formerly the eaise. i I, 'P nT ted that the railway administration in Germany has ordered a milk markets installed at points along " the lines for the convenience of railt waymen. In view of the attempts to improve the speed of grains, it is found absolutely necessary that workers be ‘ sober. - The secret of the haggis was revealred at. a recent British Cookery and ' Food Exhibition. The following, it 1 was said, are the ingredients: One medium-sized sheep’s paunch; 1 sheep y s 1 pluck, including liver, lights, and 3 heart; lib. oatmeal, 41b. barley, 6oz. - onions, 41b. beef suet, 4oz. currants, 1 Ismail nutmeg (grated)—and “a liber- - al quantity of pepper and salt for the 0-creating of a thirst.” «.I'«tt li