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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1349, 29 January 1912, Page 6

On Wednesday next, at the Willow Dale Farm, >'ai .\ai, Lower Hutt, the New /ealnud Farmers' Co-operative Distributing Company will sell, under instructions from Mr. ¥~ Hall, a choice lot of poultry nnd poultry farm appliances. The lot includes 3011 white leghorn pullets, 200 white leghorn hens, and 200 black orpington pullet?. Further particulars appear ill an advertisement. An English paper tells uf an experiment in collective housekeeping in what is known as Brent Garden Village. Tlie dwollmg-houscs contain all improvements except a kitchen. Meals for everybody are cooked at a central hall, and may ■ cither be eaten there or sent home. A four-course dinner costs only one shilling and sixpence. " Servants iiro supplied, when needed, from the central ball at a cost of about fiveperice an hour. Eugene Field, asked for the best ten books for young people under sixteen years of age, is said to have Riven the list: "Pilgrim's Progress," "Robinson Ousoo, , ' Anderson's Fairy Talcs, Grimm's Fairy Tales, "Scottish Chiefs," "Black Beauty," "The Arabian Nights," "Swiss Family Robinson." "Little Lord Fauntleroy," "Tom Brown's School Days," for boys, or, for girls, "Little Women."