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Dunstan Times, Issue 2677, 4 August 1913, Page 8

Parents who won a prize offered for the first child born under the Insurance Act at Bedingfield, Suffolk, propose to name it Red Letter, in commemoration of the occasion. It is said on the hi "hast statistical authority in the United States that the sum spent upon automobile tyres in the great republic is'larger than the total cost of maintaining the American Navy, Probably the sum invested in the oars themselves is larger than the capital cost of the whole fleet. It is comforting to know that at least some necessaries of life have not combined to increase the cost of living. A New Plymouth chemist stated in the Court the other day that during the past ©ix years there had been no tendency for the price of drugs to go up, and prices remained much about the same a*s in former yoars. “The discovery of new dirugs keeps the old drugs down,” ho added. A curious coincidence is reported by a Wellington resident. The other day he was making some alterations to an old residence, and among the timber he found a piece of paper. He used it for the purpose of some calculations, and later, on turning it over found that it was a bit of the Evening Post, January 12, 1874~-th© day ho was born.