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Greymouth Evening Star, 8 December 1911, Page 5

A tin of "Mortem" used with a spreader will keep your home free from flies, fleas and blowflies all the summer through. "Mortein" means comfort and safety, for the fly is a deadly harbinger of disease. Your grocer sells "Mertein." Price Is.—L. B. Hart and Co., Christchurch, wholesale agents.—Advt.' A number of southern gentlemen prominent in the building trade; who are ryifiiting Auckland in connection with the ronference, says the Star, were spoken tp pn thi subject of the advance in building. activity and in style noticeable in.Auok-. land during the past few years. ; The visitors, some of whom have not been in the city for a decade or more, are at one in the opinion that the northern city is showing more signs of building activity than any other part of. the dominion at, the present time. One visitor, Mr U- : Meuli, of Wanganui, pointed out that the Kyle of building throughout the dominion, not only in the large centres, but in such towns as Napier, Palmerston and advanced immensely of recent years." both from a utilitarian and an architectural point of view. As for Auckland, the strides made since his last visit eleven years ago were remarkable. "There is much to be seen here that ia still incongruous," he said, "more particularly in your main street, where wooden shanties jostle cheek-by-jowl with splen-didly-built modern structures, but will disappear in time. I have little heeiIntion in saying, however, that the style of building now going on in this town compares favourably, both in design and in the substantial nature of the work;with the building going on in any part o£ the world " An interesting fact not generally known in regard to the Macquarie Islands is that cats have been introduced there at some time or other, and that their descendants, which have grown to a very large size, have worked havoc among those birds of the is> lands which were not gifted with flight. The flightless rail, it is thought, has disappeared, as it is many years since a specimen has been seen, and the same story has to be told of a semi-flightless parrot which used to feed on kelp on the beaches, and which could fly about a hundred yards in one flight. No specimen of this bird has been sighted for a long time, and it is feared it has also fallen a victim to the cats. There are also plenty of rabbits on the islands; • and these will be available as a means of food supply for the members, ]"Jr. Mawson's expedition, should required. *:>- t The world-famous "Crossed Fish" brs&d' of true Norwegian sardines.—Advt. ,*'; > "Nasol" u more alive than ever, owose the experience of not hundredi), throats, bronchitis and infiiiensa. Sold ererywhere.—!/<• per" bottle of 6ft doMt. —Advt. Owing to temperature and other ideal* conditions,. Norwegian sardines; are the best in the world. "Crossed Fish'' are tilt best Norwegian.—Adist. .'■'" . ... , „ Call at Aynsley's for an ice cream.; the.S best in town.—Advt. v v Colds 'in £h«" heady ohes|t:; or "*" disappear as spon m- yon briny" into operation. It is the latest English remedy »nd it worki effectively. Jfo cold ia "Na*)!"' ptooi'^Advt;'