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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 45, 17 November 1926, Page 2

There are about 1000 building societies in Britain, with over 1,000,000 members on their books.

For the past thirteen years, Bridget, the monkey at Timaru Park, has appeared quite happy in her enclosure amidst some of Timaru/s prettiest stir roundings, and during that p. *has had a companion in the form of'uii opossum (says the “Herald”). The monkey was presented to the Borough Council by the Arnold family, of Lawrence, and had been the family pet for fourteen years. After about 30 years’ existence, tho Borough Council, at the request of the S.P.C.A.. have decided to have the animal destroyed, and its friend, the opos sum, liberated. The monkey was always a favourite with visitors to the park, and the children of Timaru will miss it very much. Mr. D. N. Harper (curator of the Timaru Park) told a reporter that in his opinion the monkey was as well cared tor as - any similai animal in the Dominion, and the fact that it had not once refused its fo-xl during ail the years it had been at the park, was evidence of its physical well being. The opossum, at present the monkey’s companion, has been with it for the past five years, and a great, friendship has sprung up between the pair. J

The two most beautiful towns in the United Kingdom are declared to be Edinburgh and Oxford, with Bath after a considerable interval. The others follow in this order: Torquay, Chester. York, Rye. Cambridge. Canterbury, London, Bournemouth, Harrogate, Cheltenham, Winchester, Shrewsbury, Wells, and Ludlow.