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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 41, 18 February 1931, Page 12

With a view to reducing the number of illiterate persons, the authorities o£ a Hungarian town have sanctioned a bylaw ordering all persons unable to_read or write to pay a fine varying from 7s 6d to 30s. Special arrangements are being made to teaeli those adults whose schooling had been neglected. . Martin yon Waldseemuller was the man who put America on the map. lie was a German eosmographist, of St. Die, Lorraine, who, in 1507, published a map on which the word "America" appeared for the first time as a name for the new continent Neither Columbus nor Amerigo Vespucci ever heard the word. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, first airl Children's Haclcirc Cough.—Advt. STOCKS AND SHARES. P~~ERRY AND DIGGES SMITH, Stock and Sharebrokers, Kational Bank Building lopp G.P.0., Wellington). Members Wellington Stock Exchange. Cables and Telegrams "Ennesperry." . J MILNE, Stock and Sharebroker, Maritime Buildings, Customhouse quay, Wellington; Member of the Wellington Stock Exchange. P.O. Box 893, Tel. 44-491. Telegraphic address "Jamil." AWSON & SAWELL, Sharebrokers (Members Wellington Stock Exchange), Company Promoters, 157. Featherston street. Wellington. P.O. Bos 553. Tel. 40-845 BANK OP NEW SOUTH WALES DIVIDENDS. H"<HE Wellington Stock Exchange invites -*- Shareholders in the Bank of New South Wales to attend a Meeting to be held in the Chamber of Commerce, on FRIDAY, 20th FEBRUARY, at 3 p.m., to discuss the advisability of protesting to the Directors of the Bank against the decision of the Board to deduct exchange, amounting to about 3s 8d in the pound, from dividend warrants payable in New Zealand. C. W. CARROLL, Secretary, Wellington Stock Exchange. SHIPPING. RICHARDSON & CO., LTD. For NAPIER, GISBORNE WHARF, AKITIO, and WAIROA, via Waiko-kopu-The s.s. PAKUKA, on TUESDAY, at 4 p.m. Cargo received Monday and Tuesday up to 3 p.m. JOHNSTON AND CO., LTD., Agents. Telephones 40-242 and 42-832. For WANGANUI—The s.s. INAHA, EARLY. JOHNSTON AND CO., LTD., Agents. Telephones 40-242 and 42-832.