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Evening Star, Issue 17312, 27 March 1920, Page 12

A certain man had been dining well, but not too wisely, and as-he was staggering .along homewards a friend met him and suggested that perhapa he would be better if he were to sit quietly in a picture show for a time. They accordingly went in together, but in a little while the friend the inebriated one sobbing quietly to himself although the picture then nickering across the screen was certainly not a pathetic one. "What's the matter?" he hissed. "Why can't you sit quiet and look at the picture?" "'Sno good, ol' man," sobbed the other. "I've gone stone deaf. I cant hear a single word they're saying." It is stated that a large landowner in the Otaki district, who had 800 acres of bush felled, paid nearly £3,000 for grass seed, most of which has failed to take root./ The total expenditure involved was in •thoTegion of £5,000. ;-Every prudent man carries " NAZOL " vest pocket. Nothing so good for .preventing and relieving coughs and colds. doses;; Is- 6d.—£Advt,J