NEWS AND NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17953, 24 February 1930, Page 13

NEWS AND NOTES.

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A farmer in the course of conversation with a Patea Press representative gave It as his opinion that there would be a big slump In dairy stock in the near future owing to so many heifer calves having been kept this year. In one small area where last year there were 11 heifer calves today close on 120 were to be seen, and tills, it was stated, was typical of many similar areas.

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Weasels are apparently becoming very plentiful in and around Opunake, and are taking heavy toll of the poultry yards, judging by the experiences of members of the Opunake Power Board (states the Taranaki News). One member who lives in the town and near the board’s plantation, which It was considered might harbour weasels, recounted how he frequently lost eggs as a result of the visits of these pests. One country member added his experience, showing that, despite watchfulness, he had lost three well-grown turkey chicks. He had later shot one weasel, but another had outwitted him by climbing a tree. A third member recounted the loss of a number of ducks, and a fourth stated that while motoring he had seen a weasel chasing a hare along the road and apparently running it down, as the hare appeared almost exhausted when the motor-car provided an opportune diversion. The consensus of opinion was that the pests were increasing in number.

“I am not going to allow Maoris, on a wholesale scale, to obtain manures for soils, and then repudiate the debt,” said Mr J. 11. Salmon, S.M., at the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court recently, when a Maori was being sued for a debt incurred in the purchase of manures (reports the Chronicle). The deblor, who asked that the case be adjourned until such time as financial arrangements could be made, stated that his children received money from certain family property. “You receive it and keep the family on it,” said the magistrate. “Why say that the children receive It? On his own admission,” continued his Worship, addressing counsel, “he has been generous to his family before being just to his creditors. It is typical of the Maori attitude, but I am not •going io allow it. He can pay by instalments."

While in Sydney recently, a Wanganui resident was shown the sort of “razor” that is used by members of underworld gangs when desiring to leave their “mark” on the features of an enemy (says the Herald). The oldfashioned blade razors are not used, as we imagine. A more convenient weapon is a safety-razor partly embedded in a large cork. This can be concealed in the hand and manipulated .with more ease than the blade razor. “New Zealand visitors to Sydney fear the razor gangs just as much as Australian visitors to New Zealand dread earthquakes,” he said, ‘•but the razor-slashing is confined to rival gangs in the underworld sections of the city.” Happily, in New Zealand discarded razor blads are converted to such harmless uses as sharpening pencils and cutting clippings from newspapers.