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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17451, 11 May 1922, Page 5

There is a shortage of halfpennies in Mnnaia (sa.vs tho "Witness"). -Hi 0 banks should be able to remedy thu deficiency. As tho price of a 41b loaf is Is lid, and as neither the purchaser nor the baker has often t'he necessary halfpenny, a stamp has to bo given cr received. It should be known that stamps axe not legal currency, though of ten m.ode to do duty for payment of small accounts. The* half-penny one- whi-:n comes and goes pretty fncjueiitly through tho bre;id transaction assumes a wretched condition after a little v/hik. It ia still a halfpenny stamp,_ howevw, and a number of these discoloured specimens are occasionally ««ed for r> fiting letters. The=o arc liable to relation by tiie post office officials. Tho whole difficulty could be removed qui to easily if it were taken in hand properly.

'Twaa three o'clock in the _morr.:;.,j ccj-ly, Just when the milk-ho ''chivvies '."ic moo::," And nurse came in. mob-eappy a::d surly, Bringing the bottle and <?la?t; rind hpw;!;. "A double-strong do?e forme!" gasped Mai-ue, "O, nuvsie, I war.t it thick and pure, But mix it up hot for Dot and Daisy— Good old Woods' Great Peppermint Cure!" 36