The Customs duties collected at Auckland during the .year 1917 totalled £872,812, compared with £953 ; <i4S in 1916. The beer duty totalled £42,278, compared with £39,510 in 1916. It is proposed that a portion of the library oi the late Dr. Swete, Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University for many years, should be purchased for presentation to the library of the University of Louvain when it is reconstructed. Said one grateful mother to her Mend: "Tommy used to suffer from hacking coughs r.iul colds, but now he is entirely fwo from them, thanks to Baxters Lung Preserver." Only Is. lOd.— Advt. The average daily strength of tho City of London Police last year was S4O, as compared with 1311 in pre-war times. SHABLAND'S MALT VINEGAR is not only palatable—it is wholesome. That is guaranteed. No mineral acid in I SHARLAND'S. At all groceru in bulk I And bottle.—Adrt. For Ctironio Cheet Complaints, Wooi'e Gmi Peppermint Cot*.*
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 84, 2 January 1918, Page 6
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