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Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1929, Page 2

AT THE “TALKIES”—PULMONAS. An enterprising theatre manager conceived a great',idea. v. Hearing some of tlie audience with, racking coughs, he sent the chocolate boy round with a tin of Pulmonas. Result—grateful patrons and a quiet performance. Pulmonas for coughs, colds, asthma, bronchitis, and lung troubles. Is fid and 2s fid from all chemists and stores.— (Ad.) “

THE BEST MAN FOR THE JOB. “Ought local jobs to be filled with local men?” asks the “ North Mail (England). “Especially, ought local authorities when making appointments to give a decided preference, amounting almost to a decisive privilege,- to applicants from our own area ol authority? ibis old question was raised again at a meeting of the Yorkshire North Riding Education Committee. In their search for an organising master 'of their elementary schools, the Committee have gone outside Yorkshire, and have iound the right man in Manchester. Some members emphatically protested against what they assert is an insult to the teachers of the ; Biding. They exclaimed also against the injustice. But attractive as it may appear to local sentiment, ; is [ there any soundness in their argument? Surely the Committee speak the plainest of plain commonsense when they answer that their do sire is to choose the man best quail , fied for the particular job.”