frig, stove, and private bathroom. Room was also found for a laundry- room with automatic washer and dryer. (We expect to see some inter- esting things done with the rest of the property in the future).

The former owners, John and Ruth, retained a lot at the north of the big house and built themselves a comfortable ranch house for their retirement. The carpenter was Ray Wilson, assisted by Ralph Callbeck.

OLD COINS*

Mr. Gordon Waddell has a collection of two hundred old coins com- prising a number of RE. Island cents, dated 1871, a Newfoundland cent, dated 1854, some pennies, besides the following older ones :— An Eng— lish penny of the reign of King George the Third, dated 1790; one with the inscription “Trade and Navigation”, dated 1838; Pure copper prefer- able to paper, dated 1838; another one, one Centisimo, 1822, on reverse side “Regno Lombardo Veneto” ; a Half- Penny, “Bank of Upper Canada”, 1854; a New Brunswick coin, 1854; a Half-penny token, Province of Nova Scotia, dated 1848; a number of old coppers, such as “Speed the Plough”, “Success to the Fisheries”; “Ships, Colonies and Commerce”; also a cent dated 1855; “Fisheries and Agriculture”; “Self-Government and Free Trade”, dated 1857 ; some one Centimes, Napoleon the third, dated 1866, also a number of Half-Pennies, dated 1861; one penny, King George the Fifth, dated 1921; a large American cent, dated 1848; one coin with a lion on each side of the Crown, and one with a split cod, underneath St. John’s, Newfoundland; also a number of coins of different countries; Asiatic, Mexican, Irish, U.S.A. and Newfoundland.

Among the many antiques in his possession is a Scrap Book, con- taining a record of the Boer War from beginning to end. (1899-1902). In this War two Charlottetown boys :— Alfred Riggs and Roland Taylor paid the supreme sacrifice.

He has another book, containing the late Neil Matheson’s writings, “Across the Island”, which appeared in the Charlottetown Guardian, start- ing in July, 1960.

Mrs. Hector MacNevin has several old coins :— a penny dated 1803, King Edward the 8th, an English Half-Penny, dated 1834, a Canad- ian Half-Penny, 1844, a P. E. Island Cent, 1855, an English coin, nine- pence, 1857 ; a cent 1859, (Queen Victoria) a half-penny 1871, one, 1861, one larger coin 20 REIS‘, Portugal, 1891, three 25-cent notes, 1900; and others, including “Speed the Plough,” “Fisheries and Agriculture”, etc.

ANTIQUES—

In 1967 Crapaud Institute had a display of Antiques in The Curling Club, under the direction of Mrs. Eric Lowther, Mrs. Warren Dawson and Mrs. Mildred Clark.

Among the articles on display were :— 1. A press for flattening straw to use in making straw hats, also a form for making the hats.

2. An old-fashioned apple—peeler

3. A lantern containing a rag saturated with grease, instead of oil, for light.

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