General Items.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 7, 16 January 1906, Page 3

General Items.

The British Mint has been busily engaged in coining farthings. Until very recently the farthing has been an almost unknown coin in many, perhaps the majority, of the British possessions. They are now coined to encourage thrift in the colonies. By introducing the smallest coin of the realm a saving can be effected on purchases of small quantities of goods. Farmers are complaining bitterly of the depredations wrought by small birds just now among the grrin. The crops now ripening are suffering severely. At a meeting held at Havera, attended by between sixty aid seventy farmers, it was decided to form a Farmer’s Co-tperative Association in that district. It is intended that the association shall shortly set up business, and that it shall protect the farmers as regards commissions on sales. It is proposed to issue five thousand shares of £.lO each. A million acres of forest are cut down every year to supply European railway companies with the sleepers on which the lines are laid.