Mr A. Noble, Marrickv'ille, Sydney writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, says: I have just com c across an article by Dr Andrew Wilson upon the subject Germs as Friends," in which he writes:—"Professor Loeffler, of Berlin, once upon a time, returned from the classic plains of Thessaly from a mission wherein a special germ successfully brough relief to Greek agriculture suffering from plagues of mice. Dr Loeffler was the happy discoverer of a particular germ which causes in mice, "and mice alone, a fatal disease. Cultivating the germ artificially, Dr LoenTer -roceedcd to Athens with a stock of his material Experiments at Athens showed that the germ was fatal to mice: and an abundant supply of the germs having been procured, the professor and the Greek bacteriologists set off to strew y +he Ihessaly plains bread du'-r doctored with the disease-producing particles. The result was that in a few days the plains were strewn with dead and dying_ mice, and a ready means of suppressing a very determined enomv of agricultural prosperity was th-s •placed within the grasp of the Greek farmer." The Melbourne, Ltd., announce tbe following lines of men's working shirts are in full supply. Plain blue grandrill a.nd A"? shirts, 36; striped Oxford shirts, 4 6 and 4HI ; strong grandrill shirts plain and striped. 3/11. 4/11 and ?/ G o: o m anco" nav X drill shirts. 5/6; -Si ii' I nav >'-nnfl Griped drill shirts, o/li; black sateen shirts 4/11.—Advt
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 30 October 1917, Page 5
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244Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 30 October 1917, Page 5
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