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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 5 January 1928, Page 5

The Stratford correspondent of the Taranaki Herald states: The news of the burning of the boardinghouse at Strathmore recalls the days of the nineties when the township was. believed to have a future and actually had a brief stirring present with two stores, two boardinghouses, large stables where the Whangamomona coach horses baited, a billiard room and, if rumour was to be Believed, a flourishing trade in surreptitious “spots." Visions, were of greatness, then the.railway went another way and the station is at To- Wera, three miles off, and Strathmore seems on the wav to become Strath-no-more.

‘‘l was receiving £3OOO per annum when I wa s working,” said a judgment lab tor in the Magistrate’s Court-, New Plymouth on Friday morning (reports the “Herald.”) “You were receiving an income of £3000?” queried an incredulous solicitor. The witness hastr y explained that the sum mentioned was ;he gross total of receipts handled by him on hehalf of his firm, and that he merely collected a commission on the various deals. “I wish I was getting £3OOO a year,” lie added reflectively, “I would not be here; to-day if that was the case.”

While in circulation a penny is estimated to pass through the hands of 126,000 people.