“I asked a young man I met during the week what was the chief industry in Auckland, and he said. that it was horse racing, for that received most attention,” said the Rev. Mr Dalby, at Pitt street, Auckland, on Sunday evening “That is a rotten kind of thing to” he told, and it is certainly not creditable. Although there is nothing more beautiful on a racecourse than a racehorse, there are limits to anything. I am not an enemy of sport, for I believe in wholsQme sport, and always have done; but I think people should be just as keen about other things. Take a day like this, and not considering people outside, how many of us are in dead earnest about religion itself? One should ask oneself this question, and choose, this day, whom you will serve.-” “I don’t think there is a man in town who would not buy British goods if he could get them at the same price and they gave the same service as other imported goods,” declared Mr H. Valcler (president of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce) during a discussion on the necessity for buying British uoods Jit the Chamber of Commerce meeting there recently. Sentiment, he added, was all on Britain’s side, and if British manufacturers would accommodate their wares to this Dominion’s needs, and prices were .right, there was no doubt Britain would get trade. At Dunedin Exhibition electric globes bore the sign, “Buy British goods,” but. unfortunately, added the speaker, th*> very beams from which the lamps descended were of Oregan pine. A mend rer youT '‘Nazol” is sure protection against coughs and colds; 60 doses only 1/6. —Advt.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 17 December 1925, Page 9
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