Value of the Toheroa.

A North Auckland friend of mine assures me he wouldn't be the man he is to-day if it wasn't for the abundant oyster and toheroa supplies of his native district in his youth. He is especially loud in his praise of the excellent toheroa shellfish, and he hopes the Government will take measures to assure that the beach beds will not be ruined by greedy hunters with their motor cars. “One toheroa,” he says, “is quite enough for a meal. It is as nourishing as an egg and as satisfying. page 50 You may eat a dozen or more oysters and ask for another lot, at a sitting, but one toheroa is plenty. There is nothing of its size so rich and sustaining.” To which it might be added that toheroa soup goes down the throats of quite a lot of crowned heads and other great ones of the earth to-day. It is one of the many little things that have helped to place New Zealand on the map.