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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11247, 27 June 1922, Page 12

An Anglo-Saxon coin worth firepence, and marked with a cross, to enable it to bo broken into four pieces, wag known as a “seylling,” from, the word “skil,” to divide; hence, comes our modern term “shilling.” Tho total population of Canada in the census of 1921, according to figwea just issued, is 8,760,489, as compared with 7,206,643 in 1911, an increase of 1,562,846 for tho ten years, or nearly twenty-two per cent. The water-borne lumber export from British Columbia in 1921 was in excesß of 188,000,000 feet, an excess of about 44,000,000 feet over the record of 1920. A largo share of this export went to Japan and Chinit,