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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16375, 24 June 1927, Page 7

Canberra florins to the value of £141,000 are now (in calculation throughout Australia. The issue, was limited to £200,000 (for 2,000,000 florins) and (bodies have been destroyed so that no further coins can be minted. Florins worth £59,000 aw still held by the Commonwealth Treasury, and will be released for circulation as the demand arises. Although so many coins liaye been minted, the number in actual circulation appears to bo small. As is only too well known to the ~nd City Council, there are in Central Auckland hundreds of little, old cottages, built to rent 50 or 60 years ago, and now folfins into decay (states the Sun). These dwellings, mere boxes of three or four rooms each, stand huddled together on narrow alleys in which building would not now be permitted. If they were pulled down no other dwellings'could be erected on tho '.round they occupy, and as a result there is a temptation to preserve them as long as possible with a "minimum expenditure on repairs. The City Ooun"il condemns a number each year, but others are on the borderline. Although highly undesirable, thev cannot be abolished at present, and if ibey were the usual slum problem would crop up at once—where to hud homes for the inhabitants.