SHORTENS ITS COURSE.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 87, 9 May 1916, Page 8

SHORTENS ITS COURSE.

Once settled in the system whooping cough and colds must run for a certain course, lint the use of Chamberlain's Cough lfemedy very much shortens the time required for a complete recovery. In whooping cough it liquifies the tough mucus and aids its expectoration, rendering the liis of coughing less frequent and less severe. Chamberlain "s Cough Remedy deprives whooping cough of any dangerous consequences and insures a complete recovery in less time than is usually required. Sold everywhere. THRIFTY SENATOR PEARCE. DEPARTMENTAL ECONOMY. Thousands of pounds a year are being saved by the Defence Department through the economies approved by Senator Pearee. Minister for Defence (states a Melbourne message to the Sydny 'Sun'), 'l'he issue of red tape. ink. pencils, string, sealing-wax and all the other .smal! articles used by officers and officials are watched to prevent waste. The frequent issue of casualty lists involves a very heavy expenditure, and by typing both sides of tlie sheets instead of using only one side as hitherto the base records branch is saving approximately £6OO a year. One long list issued in hundreds of copies cost £lO. By using both sides of the paper the cost is reduced to £4. for not so many hands are needed in assembling the sheets and half the quantity of paper is used. By establishing depots for drugs in each State, from which supplies can 1 be drawn for military hospitals, a considerable saving has been effected. The Department has not yet begun to buy false teeth largely from wholesale firms, but the question of saving in ibis way is under consideration. One wholesale firm sold recently more than 1.000.000 false teeth, and thousands of these have been placed in the mouths of soldiers.

Mr Trumble (Secretary for Defence) states that economy is being exercised throughout the Department. Stationery is bein'g used .sparingly, and waste paper will not be destroyed. Formerly the headings of defence stationery were emliossed. Much money is being saved by the substitution of printing for entliossing. IT NEVER FAILS. Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy is all its name implies. It relieves diarrhoea and dysentery in either children or adults, and the most violent cases of cramp, colic, or pain in the stomach give way to :t few doses of this medicine. It never fails. Sold everywhere.

" LOTS OF GOOD MATERIAL." INTERLUDE AT FEUDING. An entertaining interlude occurred while the Prime Minister was addressing the public at Feilding the other afternoon. The crowd wa-s a very large one, and included a number of men who were evidently eligible for service. "1 nut not going to make a, recruiting speech now,'' said Mr Massey, with a smile, "hup 1 feel very much tempted to do so because 1 isee lots of good material in front of me."—'(Laughter.) A voice: Go further north. There's more. —(Further laughter.) Mr Massey: We can do with them all. A bystander (alluding to the crowd on ihe platform): There's a. few up there. u\iore hilarity.) .Mr Massey added that- since the war commenced he had had quite a lot of experience as a recruiting sergeant. It. had been the policy of the National Government, and the Government befoie it, to do its full duty in the direction of assisting the. Empire in the serious crisis through which it was passing. The people must be kept going, the exports must be kept going, and all must do their level best. Money was pouring into the country. It was so plentiful that men had actually told the Government that the taxation was not heavy enough.—(Loud laughter.) But no country was ever made prosperous by over-taxation. We had to look ahead, when prices would be very much lower, and would have to keep on carrying out our very heavy responsibilities.—(Applause.) The longer the war lasted the more seriously we would feel it. No less than 55,000 of the cream of New Zealand had gone or were going to the front—many of them producers and all of them workers—and he hoped that when "these grand young fellows" came back to tho country to which they belonged they would, as the result of preparations made for them, be able to hecome permanent setters.—(Applause.)