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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 34, 25 August 1904, Page 15

The demand for poultry for export to South Africa (slays the Wellington correspond cant of the ' Otago Daily Times ') is ytill unsatisfied. One Wellington firm has been anxious Vo purchase birds at tihe rate of £1000 per month, hut is unable to obtain anything like the number which is required. The Government poultry expert states that this year's export to South Africa will probably be almost double tiiat for 1903-04, when 100,0.00 birds were sent away. In Chrislchurch alone since Apul last the export has been about 100,000 head.

In tihe Government Life Insurance ' Recorder ' just to hand we find the following items, which "will be ot much interest to those abfuit to insure • The Department has just celebrated its thirty-fourth birtihday, it has over 43,000 policies m force, it has an income of over £160,000, it has allotted £2,000,000 in bonuses, and has paid over £3,500,000 in cash to policy holders, a«.d has over £11,000,000 injured by its policies It lias decreased the ratio of expenses to income by 25 per cent in fourteen years Above and beyond all this it has the Colony as a secunty, which is a matter of supreme importance to insure! s