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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 August 1919, Page 4

The price of furnishings for a house has been gone into by the Auckland Star, ns lately the Repatriation Board has agreed to give the sum of £50 to returned soldiers v/ho are desirous of setting up housekeeping. The necessaries for a four-roomed "shack" are enumerated1, and it is demonstrated that after furnishing the Eying room and bedroom, there would be nothing left for the kitchen, blind*!,, window curtains, bed, and table linen, while luxuries such as a. couch or easy chairs, would he impossible. The writer has not touched on the question of secondhand goods, which are often both good and reasonable, and probably the "nf-,y.poundersJ) would first of all see what could be done in that direction before visiting the furniture shop. ' The Press, Times and Sun Companies announce that after September 1 the price of their newspapers will be J-J-d to regular subscribers and 2d to casual purchasers (reports a Presg Association telegram). Th c proprietors state that Canterbury is the only province in the Dominion in which the selling price of newspapei-s remained unchanged throughout the war, but the everincreaeing advance in the cost of paper, coupled with similar advances in other materials, and the steady increase in the general cost of production have left them no alternative. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Kaiapoi Woollen Company this week. Mr J. A. Frostick, chairman of directors, in referring to the talk about profiteering, said the New Zealand Board of Trade was now making enquiries into the woollen industry of the/ country, and he felt justified 'in publicly saying that woollen mill owners in this country would assist in every possible way to arrive at the truth. There was no resentment at th© enquiry ; quite the contrary. A boon to public speakers, singers, find reciters is "NAZOL." Keep* the hrnnt clour as a bell. Can be taken nn\ where.— Advt.