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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 55, 21 February 1902, Page 3

The Palmerston North correspondent of the New- Zealand Times says : A fact which indicates the development of the .poultry industry in this district is that one local firm nas sold upwards of 100 incubators within the last six months. Another firm has recently sold as much as 12000 yards of wire netting, which would reach a distance of no less than seven miles. From these facts it can be seen that capital is being put into the industry, which should soon prove a not insignificant rival to dairying and fruit-growing. All records in building have just been broken in New York (according to the Daily Mail of 7th Decemberf. The entire steel framework of a 15 story office building has just been erected at 68, William-street. The work was accomplished in 25 days. On the 9tli November the old building occupying the site was removed and the ground cleared. A huge steel skeleton was then erected, and is now ready for the stone and brickwork. The building will be fully completed in six weeks, and the owners then expect to have all the offices filled with tenants.

In consequence of the ravages of caterpillars at Amberley, a settler who was recently threshing oats which produced about 3g bushels per acre, decided to cut the rest of a crop, from about 100 acres, for chaff.