below $100 numbered 2.241 and 4,990 with aggregates of $40,038 and $45,503 Fespectively. The nowly-started "Post Ofice Simple Lite Insurance" is another branch of the Bank's activi-Hes to meet with popular favour, the total number of polloies issued during the year amounting to 10,408 cover! the total sum of $2210531. The counting and in the benefits derived from the attendant lowering of remitlance rates by banks generally. 'The Bank obtained interesting data on the working of the reform scheme by issuing a questionnaire to. all post offices and "agencies. From the' information thus obtained it was Tearnt that the smallest. unit" of the ow coinage (4 cent.) is not low enough in relation to the standard of living. The view was expressed that among the poorer classes a lower unit Ig desirable, because of the consider ably lower' value of the old copper coins. Thus, although the barometer hows a welcome trend upwards, 1 is lear that the general ceonomie'con-ition requires considerable bracing before it'can be acclaimed as con= ricing to contentment and. really Significant bromioss. To that end Sustained attention to the agrari problem is best calculated to bring
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