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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 11 August 1925, Page 5

New Zealand is to be the centre of the universe in future., so far as Dominion school maps of the world are concerned. Most of the maps in use at present show New Zealand as a very small speck in an obscure corner of the globe, where its position, relative to other parte of the world, cannot 'readily be seen. This does not meet with the approval of the Minister for Education, whose attention has been drawn to maps on which New Zealand is shown in the centre, and he has therefore issued instructions that all maps of the world used in schools should as far as possible be of this type, the old maps to be replaced as soon as opportunity arises. Referring >« the varnishing of the Queen Victoria, statue in the Kent Terrace reserve described by newspaper coi respondents as “vandalism, the Wellington city engineer, Mr. A. .J. Patterson, states that a similar cleaning up was given the statue prior to the visit of the Prince of Wales. A complaint was made then that the real beau tv of the old bronze was taken a wav,' but the mellowing returned fairly qtiicklv The difficulty of cleaning; the statue,' if it was really necessary to clean old mellowed bronze, was that ii acids were used it was certain that the cleaning pvenaration would run down and destroy the appearance of the ston e base. Great bargains will be the order of the day at Harrops Ltd. Great End-of-Scason Sale, commencing Thursday, July 30th. Goods of fashion and oddments will be simply given away, and substantial reductions quoted on all other lines. —Harrops Ltd. KIDDIES LIKE ’EM. Most children an awful dread of medicines, but you’ll find they all like Wade’s Worm Figs—the finest remedy for worms. They aet surely and certai/ily, and are perfectly harmless. Keep your children fit and healthy with Wade’a Worm Figs. —2