ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Bush Advocate, Volume XVIII, Issue 489, 15 August 1906, Page 5

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

o ..- New bread is generally very difficult to cut neatly. Dip the knife in hot water first, and you will be surprised hovr neatly you cut tbe bread. Mackay and Potts, in their space on leader page, notify a number of reductions in the prices of ladies' jackets at their great annual sale. Mr P. L. Price has for sale White Leghorns, of Leger's strain. Last few days of D.C.A. Winter Sale. Further reductions : Tapestry, tablecovers 25 to GO per cent, reductions. Dress stuffs greatly reduced. — Advt. Akitio County Council inserts a notice in regard to proposed loan No. 3. . Ladies are advised to try the new skin food — obtainable at Jeftery's and Prior's. Considered as a food, cheese is one of the most valuable nutrients we have. It is rich in tissue-building and energyproducing ingredients. European peasants to whom meat is a luxury, thrive and grow strong ou a cheese diet. Mr J. Burns wants two teams for firewood carting. On Monday, August 20, Mr W. Rose will hold a sale of dairy stock, draught horses, waggons, etc., on behalf of Mr T. Sinclajr. On Thursday, August 28, Mr W. Rose will hold "a clearing sale at Tiratu on behalf of Mrs Aylward. The dairy stock includes 20 young and sound dairy cows. Palmerston stock sales to-morrow. Band social at Oddfellows' Hall this evening. "Mulligan Guards " at Matamau this evening. Mitchell and Griffith hold a sale of drapery, hardware, &c, in Oddfellows' Hall to-morrow, at 12.30. j Mantell & Co., umbrella makers, notify that they have appointed an agent in Dannevirke, so that all repairs will be forwarded to them and executed { promptly.