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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6676, 1 August 1928, Page 6

‘‘The farmers as a body,” said Mr A. A. Rose, of Auckland, at the conference of t!‘o New Zealand Farmers’ Union, “have no consideration for their oWn companies. If they find a co-operative company is’ making'any profit, they want it divided among themselves instead of providing for a rainy day. That is why so many cooperative companies go to the wall.”

‘‘Opportunity makes the thief,” as an Auckland lady found to her cost in a city drapery store recently. She had bought a pair of pyjamas, and desiring to pay for them, handed them, together , with a £1 note, to a man without a hat, whom she took to be oho of the shop assistants. That was the last she saw of either her money or the parcel. After waiting some time for the man to return, she made anxious inquiries, only to find that she had been duped. It was a particularly mean type of theft.

The Colonial Sugar Refining Comuam- announces that the prices of aa grades of raw and refined sugars with the exception of tablet and icing sugars are reduced ten shillings a ton from to-morrow. Prices %f tablet and icing sugars will remain unaltered. / A pleasing sight from;"'the Marine Parade (Napier) on a recent afternoon was that of a ladyy resident in that quarter, busily engaged in feeding a considerable flock of; gulls from the beach. Uttering their shrill cries, the birds evidently recognised a friend and appreciated both the kind thought prorating the action and the meal provided, for they exhibited tameness, wheeling in the air just above the head of their benefactress and then coming to rest at her feet to make their meal. From the numbers present it seemed apparent that the lady makes a regular practice of providing a meal for the birds in this way.