The Waikato Independent SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1936. NEWS IN A NUTSHELL

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3423, 22 February 1936, Page 4

The Waikato Independent SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1936. NEWS IN A NUTSHELL

Breeding Game Birds. —Te Awamutu sportsmen are interesting themselves in a project for co-operating with all provincial branches of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society in a scheme for breeding and liberating many more game birds (especially pheasants), in selected districts, as an alternative to observing a close season.

Motorists’ Friend. - “There arc hundreds and perhaps thousands of rural ratepayers who are members of *he Automobile Association” commented Cr J. S. Fisher at Monday’s meeting of the Waipa County Council. He added that the automobile association were doing splendid work, and every motorist shoul join an association —he would receive his money’s worth for the one guinea subscription.

Full of Emptiness.—A careless packer in far-away Finland must have been responsible for a surprise which came the way of a Cambridge smoker yesterday. Buying a box of matches he opened it to light a cigarette. The box was quite innocent of matches, but the retailer, as surprised as the customer, soon put the matter right and gave him a full box.