NOTES AND NEWS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3252, 4 September 1917, Page 3

NOTES AND NEWS.

Late advices from Home show that footwear is soaring tjj phenomenal prices, and that there is a strong probability of exportation of boots and shoes to New Zealand and else where being stopped (says an exchange). The British Government m April issued further instructions to restrict still more the exportation of footwear, and now manufacturers ai"e required to obtain from the Board of Trade a "license for each shipment before the goods can be sent forward. Orders placed with a Home firm in February and March will be advanced from 4s 'to 5s tid per pair on the prices' preceding orders. Leather values a e continually rising, and at latest we e up to four times"pre-war rates. Some classes of leather are unprocurable, because the Government has prohibit*, ed importation. In addition the .actory staffs have been depleted b> calling up all fit men between 18 and 41 years of age, and the Government requisitions upon manufacturers ate growing steadily. One firm reports having supplied one million pairs oi boots for army purposes. Some drops of NAZOL on lump suzar instantly soothe sore throats and remove huskiness. Equally elective for coughs and colds. Sixty doses Is 6d. Get genuine NAZOL. "The only oojection I have to the kindergarten is the word, and that is because it is of German origin, said Mr A. Peverill at a meeting o> the Canterbury School Committees Association. The statement did not meet with approval from some of the members, but Mr Peverill maintained that he was correct. "The word means a garden school,' saw, "and if the Government should take over {he kindergartens then it should call them garaeu schools." DECLARE WAR ON COLDS. A crusade of education which aims "that common colds may become uncommon within the next generat.ou has been begun by prominent New York physicians. Here is a list o. the "don'ts' * which the doctors say will prevent the annual visitation of the cold: , 4 . "Don't sit in a draughty tiam or tram." "Don't sleep in hot rooms. "Don't avoid the fresh air. "Don't stuff yourself at meal times. Overeating reduces your resistance." To which we would add —when you take a cold get rid of it as quickly as possible. To accomplish that you will find Chamberlain's Cough Reuiedv most excellent. Sold by L. Hotop. chemist. BAVARHNS AGITATED. Telegrams from Munich allege that the Barians, agitated by their enormous losses in Flanders, declare that the Kaiser and Hindenburg are allowing the flower of mannood of Bavaria to be masssacred in order to spare the Prussians. Banish coughs and colds and save money by using NAZOL. Eighteen pence buys 60 doses —enough .to cure the whole badcold family. Get genuine NAZOL.