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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 193, 21 July 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

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PEACH NT.XT YEAR' Until']'writers nt Lloyd's, for a premium of 25 guineas per cent., undertake to pay a total loss should peace not lie proclaimed )>v September 30th, Jl'l7. .JOHN* BULL'S INCOME. In time of peace John Bull's annual income is said to lie £2.400,000,000. During ilie war Imoin it has probably been higher. His ordinary savings every year reach nearly 400 millions L-terlin:;'. MACHINE FRUIT-SORTERS. A motor-driven machine for e'eaning and grading fru't. lias recently been brought out Oregon, and is capable <>f handling apples, peaches, pears, oranges and lemons, and of distributing them into ten grades at the rate seventeen thousand pieces per hour. AUSTRALIA'S FIVE MILLIONS. It is stated that Australia's total population )ia-s reached five millions. With a population of five millions for an area of nearly three million square miles, Australia" is sti'l the most sparsely peopled country in the world. In area Australia represents one fourth of the British Empire. "'BAD'' CI SOLI) FOR £2 Is. 7d. Many years ago a ectain Londoner was given a bad sovereign. It was made ch'efly of platinum. He has recently sold it for £2 Is 7d. An authority states that forty years ago counterfeited sovereigns were often made of platinum, which at that time cost only 25s per ounce. Two months ago it was 10 guineas per ounce. Dealing in platinum without a permit is now prohibited. UNIFORMS FOR WOMEN FARMWORKERS. A Br:tVh woman farm worker's uniform, as approved by Lord Selbornc, will cost 265. 6d. It will consist of a coat antl a short skirt of durable washing material, gaiters and stout boots. Samples of this costume will be supplied to women's farm labour committees by the Board of Agriculture. The cost of the coat will be 10s (3d: the skirt ss: the boots 75.. and the gaiters ts. FORTUNES IN A DAY. Not long ago Mr Theodore Prite made €IOO,OOO in five minutes during a panic on the New York Cotton Exchange. On the same exchange Mr J. Hoadle.v cleared £200,000 in a quarter of an hour, and before the day c'o>cd he had added £'Boo,ooo to hi? "pi'e." Mr Harriman is said to have made £ (00.000 on the New York Stock Exchange between breakfast and luncheon.