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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 93, 4 July 1902, Page 4

A resident of Greytown this year sold no less than 12 cwt of pears from two trees in his orchard, leaving him a profit of £ls after the fruit had been sold to the local fruiterers at wholesale price. This would mean large returns from an acre of ground. With trees planted 25ft apart it would take 100 trees, which, at the same rate, would show a profit of £750. A boy named Hennessy, residing ®in Foxton, received severe burns on the face through brilliantine, with which he was cleaning a carbine near a lamp, exploding. All the everyday problems of life which stretch out in a long line between tears and laughter come only at their solution to a little pluck, a little patience, a little forbearance, and a little toil.—London Sun. A prison visitor told a convict it would be helpful to him to take a motto and try to live up to it. “I’d like,” said the convict, “to select the motto, ‘We are here to-day, and gone to-mor-row.’ ” The following table worked out by a farmer shows the difference in cost of a floor for a cowshed made out of bricks on edge, and one made of concrete. taking the floor as 15ft by 30ft, bricks on edge it 2025 bricks (simply laid in side by side) at £2 2s 6d per 1000 L 4 6s, as against concrete five barrels cement at LI 6s, L 6 10s; 6yds screened gravel at ss, LI 10s, making a total cost of LB, leaving a difference in favour of the brick floor of L 3 14s.

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