At the .annual meeting of the Christchurch Chamber of Commerce yesterday tho retiring president (the Hon. AV. F. Wigram) delivered an address dealing with the world’s production of gold, showing that the accumulation of gold was causing depreciation of that metal, to the disadvantage of creditor countries like England and the advantage of debtor countries like New Zealand. He believed that the prosperity of New Zealand was due in some measure to the increased production of gold. At yesterday’s meeting of the Waikouaiti County Council the inspector submitted a return a sired for at the previous meeting by Cr Kilpatrick. This snowed that during a period of 10 years the council had spent just over £IOO within the boundaries of the Borough of Port Chalmers. The bulk of this was for the lighting that was undertaken from 1905 to 1908. To liking’s Linseed Emulsion removes all the misery of sneeze and sniffle.—[Advt.]
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Evening Star, Issue 14966, 28 August 1912, Page 8
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