INTEREST REDUCTION

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 92, 20 April 1933, Page 18

INTEREST REDUCTION

LYTTELTON HARBOUR BOARD

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHEISTCHURCH, April 19. The Lytteltou Harbour Board, at a special meeting, decided not to convert its loans but to be' content'with a legislative reduction of 20 per cent, in inter,est charges.l ..The board agreed that the conversion, of: its loans would not show sufficient benefit to the board to warrant the expense of conversion. It was also considered.that to leave debentures unconverted would protect .bondholders, as reissue at a lower rate of interest for a longer term would probably depreciate securities. " In discussion it was stated, that the | saving in interest would be insufficient j to make possible a reduction in. port charges, and the suggestion was made that the money saved be handed over to the sinking fund commissioners. This question, however, was reserved', for later consideration. .

TO CURB BACKACHE. A SPECIALIST'S ADVICE. Backache, that excruciating,, agonising pain in the small of the back which almost drives one :crazy, and often makes the slightest movement torture, is almost invariably due to the jfailuro'of the kidneys to do their work properly. The first thing that happens when the kidneys begin to fail is the deposit of uric acid crystals, which usually first make their presence felt in the nerve sheaths in the big musclea of the back and hips. When-; ever the condition occurs, there are two; things to be done; first, dissolve out itlie uric acid crystals, and second, restore, the natural tone aiid vigour of the kidneys, so that the uric acid which continually forms in the body is filtered froiji the; blood and flushed out of the system in a natural manner instead of being permitted to collect and crystallise as described above. Formerly,' to accomplish these two objects it was necessary to take expensive courses of treatment at famous springs, but an eminent scientist has recently discovered that the same result may be secured at slight expense by drinking, three or four times a day_, a glass of water in which has been dissolved a teaspoonful of ''Alkia Saltrateg:''.; This*pleasanttasting compound, which .enables you to reproduce the curative and medicinal properties of .the most famous springs, is obtainable of any chemist. "Alkia Saltrates" should in a few days not only remove all uric acid from the blood, thus ridding you of backache, rheumatism, and lumbago, but will at the same time restore the kidneys to normal activity and perfect health, thus guaranteeing freedom from futura attack.—Advt.