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Thames Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 10451, 28 October 1904, Page 4

It is said that the following very simple questiooi in arithmetic has produced columns of correspondence in the Weekly Scotsman, there being no end 1 of differences as to. the answer : Ai -mail buy si from a hatter one hat, 7s 6d', and tenders * half sovereign ml payment. Tho (hotter hasn't the change but a neighbouring grocer" supplies the change. The grocer discovers the half sovereign; to be bad 1, and the hatter Ms 1 to make the loss good. Question : How much has the hatter lost? Chief of all our'mistakes, says Mr Johnsl, president of the Auckland Fruitgro-Wei's' Union, who has been studying the fruiit industry in California,, is the loading up of our orchards 1 with every imagina.ble sort andi'Varioty of fruit, so that instead • of being 1, as) they ought to bo, 'commercial orchards,', they are simply a vast collection of experimental grounds, wherein a series of aimless and too' often .profitlessi experiments are carried out without benefit to ourselv'eys or others.