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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4847, 19 April 1918, Page 4

‘During the last few months men’s a a,l boys' shirts of eveiy description ha Vo advanced in price very seriously. Messrs. C. .Rosie and Co. anticipated this and secured big supplies at practically old prices. Tn.s firm arc now shorting a magnificent assortment of winter and summer shirts —working shirts, neglig* .shirts, tennis shirts—in fact, a very big variety of all kinds of shirts for men and boys, m some cases at less than wholesale prices.*

A. woman who fills tier proper place in the liome and social life has many duties to attend to. Her working day is often long and very full. Especially is this so at the present time. To give her best her energies must be propel ly directed, and there must be no waste, and it is in this--important respect that mistakes are frequently made. Why should a woman use .many precious hours of he- time, and perhaps injure her health and eyesight, making underclothing when she can buv all she requires for practically the same amount as she spends on the materials'- Miss "M. Neill. Gisborne’s ladies' underclothing specialist, has large stocks of underclothing, and is in a position to sell much cheaper than present wholesale prices warrant—.at the old corner and ■at Everybody’s Buildings.*

Some years ago the 200-egg hem A was a rare bird, now there are flocks of hens, each of which has laid 200 eggs in a year. Plymouth Pocks, Wyandottes, and Rhode Island red hens, have laid over 260 eggs in a year, while several White Leghorns and one Black Orpington hen have laid over 300 eggs in a year. The best up to last week was a Black Orpington at Hawkesbury, New South Wales, 312 eggs, and at Bendigo,. Victoria, “a White Leghorn, 315 eggs. These records \vore eclipsed last week by a Leghorn owned by Messrs Green Bros., St. Albans. This hen won the single pen test -at Papanni. with 312 eggs. Last week she broke aU records by laying '316 eggs in 363 days, this being one egg and two dajs better than the next best. Her eggs averaged over two ounces, and were of good shape. Messrs Green have sold their record-breaker to Mr H. Williams, Christchurch, the price being £3O, which is a record figure for .New Zealand. The pen of six Indian Runners, owned by Mr W. H. Bower. Levin, laid 1574 eggs in fiftyone weeks. The best in the world is 1580 in fifty-one weeks, by six ducks at Hawkesbury College. These ducks in the 'fifty-two weeks, the period of the contest, laid 1601 eggs.