Pneumonia Can Be Avoided

Evening Post, Volume LXVI, Issue 55, 2 September 1903, Page 2

Pneumonia Can Be Avoided

iiy using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. The peculiar properties of this Bemedy have been thoroughly tested during the last few epidemics of Influenza, and when it was taken in time, we have as yet to hear of a single case resulting in Pneumonia.. Is fid«

The vote for the class passed unaltered at midnight. ( INDUSrRIES AND COMMERCESOUTH AFRICAN SERVICE. The next class taken was office of Industries and Commerce, £21,408. Mr. James Allen urged that the trade representative in South Africa was not of adequate benefit to the colony, and he moved to reduce his salary (£450) by £1 as, an indication that it is unnecessary to be spending money in that direction. The Minister (Sir J. G. Ward) said a good deal of trade had taken place with South Africa, which was due to Mr. Gow's reprssentations, and if the colony had not a man there the trad© would probably pass to some other country. Wherever he had gone he had advertised the colony, and had done an immense amount of good in bringing the colony prominently before the people of South Africa. Mr. Duthie said the inconsistencies in the reports of our nade lepresentatives made them entirely valueless. The country got to benefit horn the large expenditure ol this Depaitment. The Premier wanted to know how it was that before the Government instituted its present progressive policy the trade was not done with South Africa that is now being done? Had the Government not stepped in the trade, he declared, would not have been done. A large export trade in timber had grown up with England, for instance, and one company in Auckland alone had thirty million feet of kauri seasoning. We should take a lesson from 'what other countries are doing. Canada had its representatives everywhere, and spent large sums of money advertising her products. It was no use lying back ; we must advertise our products, and if the colony stood still ' it would go behind. In Air. Gow they had a man with a knowledge of our business, and who .had the confidence of the exporters, and so far as the Government could see his being in South Africa was a great convenience to producers. He claimed that good work had been done, and his advice to the colony was that they should extend in this direction instead of going back. Mr. J. Allen said that Mr. Gow had told the colony that there was no trade with South Africa worth having — that they must find their market in the Old Countiy. The trade was being developed by the merchants of the colony, and we could get along very well without the Trade Representative. Mr. Buchanan, in reply to the Pre. mier, said that the reason why the trade with South Africa had not been developed previously was that, owing to the war, the goods could not be landed. As to the meat trade with South Africa, freezing companies were anxious to preserve the reputation of New Zealand meat, but the people buying for South Africa kept down the price to the very lowest, and South Africa was getting meat at a lower price from other countries. As to the direct service, he said that the ventures were mainly made . by the ship, and not by the merchants— a condition of things which was not satisfactory. . The Minister (Sir Joseph War*d), in reply to Mr. J. Allen, said that Mr. Gow in his first report had distinctly reported that there was an opening for our produce — meat, butter, etc. Mr. Jas. Ailen said he was afraid that in devoting our energies to South Africa we are losing our hold on the Eitglish market. Mr. Buchanan urged that the Government could not expect the business capacity that was required for Produce Commissioner in England for £400 a year. Either the Commissioner was underpaid, or they had not got the right man in the right place, and he protested against the cheeseparing of the Government in regard to this appointment. The Minister said that Mr. Cameron, in addition to his travelling expenses (£1 a day) and his salary (£400) got £2 a day as a special allowance. Mr. Gow had assisted him in exploiting the English markets. He added that a Canterbury firm is arranging for direct shipments of meat to Manchester. The contract for the direct service to South Africa was for three years, the contractors being at liberty to discontinue it at the end of a year, in which case they received nothing at all. If they went on it would be for three years at £30,000 a year. The contractors were the New Zealand and South African Steamship Company — a combination of six large steamship companies. Mr. J. Allen's amendment was negatived on the voices, and the vote passed unaltered. TOURIST AND HEALTH RESORTS. The next vote was Tourist and Health Resorts Department, £21,969. The Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) said the number of visitors to Rotorua had considerably increased during the past year. The outlay on this Department would well repay the colony. The De"NO IIOBE CAMPING." "No more camping for me !" said Mr. John M'Avenue, a genial Irishman who has been making his living out of New Zealand farm land for the last twentyfive years. " I took up a contract in the bush," said he, " where we simply had to camp out 1 and bear the roughest living. The cooking was mighty bad, and the weather was even worse. At any rate, between them they set me up with a great dose of neuralgia. I was driven almost mad with agony," continued Mr. M'Avenue, "until I got back to Palmerston and bought some Dr. Williams' pink pills from Robert Raymond, the chemist. They soon set me right. But I couldn't tell you half wnat I suffered in camp. Red-hot spasms of pain ran up and down the nerves and over my face. Sometimes the pain would give such a jerk that it seemed as if the nerves were being torn away. I could not eat the tough meat, so that I was soon faint from weakness and frantic with pain. It was all caused, of course, by my bad blood, and constant backache told me that my kidneys were wrong. I used to thump my'back again and again to try and press the pain away, but it was no use. I suffered for months like this before I could leave for my home in Boun-dary-road, Palmerston — and there," added Mr. M'Avenue, "I tried Dr. Williams' pink pills at once, for I knew that they cured neuralgia, rheumatism, sciatica, backaches, and headaches by getting right down to the cause of the trouble in the blood. After taking two boxes, the burning pains stopped. My kidneys worked better and I felt stronger. Six boxes cured me for good. Now my back is straight and strong, and I never have a touch of neuralgia, even in the coldest weather. But I shall never forget the terrors of that spell under canvas. The very thought of it makes me shudder."