The anniversary of Passchendaele, with its pathetic cluster of commemorative notices, has come and gone; and to-morrow (Sunday) will be Trafalgar Day, or Nelson Day. A suitable way of celebrating the occasion would be to contribute a trifle to the fund for the restoration of the mighty seaman's world-famous and precious flagship, the Victory.
Mr E. J. Swann, of Tauranga, has supplied the following evidence in favour of wekas as rabbiters (says an exchange): "When driving from Matangi to Hamilton a few years ago Mr E. Bullock, of Hamilton East, saw a weka drag a live rabbit, half grown, on the top of a bank. They disappeared in an opening in a hedge. I mentioned the incident to Mr J. Park, who lives near Te Awamutu. He said that, in the early days, rabbiters on his estate told him that wekas sounded the surface about rabbit holes on rising ground, and then scratched as if they were trying to locate the burrow higher up.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1418, 20 October 1923, Page 4
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