HEALTH.

Northern Advocate, 17 June 1920, Page 4

HEALTH.

Do you enjoy what you eat? If you don't, your food does not do you much good. There, is no way to maintain the health and strength of mind and body except by nourishment. There is no way to nourish the body except through the stomach. The stomach must be kept healthy, pure and sweet, or the strength will go down, and disease will result. Dr. Sheldon's digestive Tabules are the remedy that everyone should take when there is anything wrong with the stomach. Dr. Sheldon's Digestive Tabules are the only digestant or combination of digestants that will digest ALL classes of food. When you take Dr. Sheldon's Digestive Tabules everything you eat tastes good, and every bit of the nutriment that it contains is assimilated and appropriated by the blood and tissues. Did you ever hear of a man or woman being sick or weak who could eat heartily, and who enjoyed their meals. Every man, woman or child who is sick, puny p or weak can soon eat heartily, and enjoy every meal if they use Dr. Sheldon's Digestive Tabules. These Tabules are sold everywhere at Is 6d for a tin containing 80 Tabules.

ENLARGEMENT OF PLANT. In view of possible additions to the i Australian popuiauon when sea travel can be resumed on normal lines, we have been obliged lg Lake up the matter of supplementing the retining plant, and are now arranging foi .changes in Sydney and Melbourne to meet a larger demand. There are many factors to be considered, no <- the leasi important of which is the enormous cost ox both buiitdings and p.uni, DU. we hope to be abie to complete the proposed works for £vi amount that will not greatly exceed the sums we must set aside for depreciation of the refinery plant during the years 1;. 20-22 inclusive. Another difficulty—a very serious one—is that of getting men and materi.il for building purposes. We have not yet been able to complete the sugar store at the Pyrmont Refinery, which was destroyed .by fire eighteen months ago. While speaking on this subject I may say concerning the agitation for reducing the week's work to live days, that such a change wi.l, if successful, take a sixth off the production of the refineries, already working to their full capacity to supply the community with sugar. The only trades I have heard of as likely to benefit by this proposal! are those connected with the suburban racecourses. No doubt, it can be contended that manufacturers are abie to continue working at a profit when imports are checked by high protective duties, and such duties are increased as required to counteract the effect of shortened hours and diminished production. (But is no consideration to be given to tiie country producer, on whose work the towns live, and to the large class of people with small fixed incomes on whom the effects of the present regulated wage system fall with grievous force. The extent to which tne country has gone in placing the control of industries in the hands of tho legal profession can be gathered from the fact that in our own Aus-

tralian factories we are now directly affected by 98 State and Commonwealth awards; how many touch us indirectly I could not say.

.Good rains bave fallien in Fiji from .November till the present time, the consequence being that we hope for an average crop, except at one mill, where the racial unrest already manifest in India brought albout a strike and rioting. The rising was queitled with the help of a small military force from New Zealand, and, as the agitators who brought it on have now left the country, the trouble is not likely to recur. (For the past six months negotiations for .he resumption of immigration from India have <been continued there and in England. It is too early yet to say that the difficulty, which should never have arisen, has been settled, but the prospects of agreement in th matter are better than they were. On our side, .there is nothing to hinder settlement; we have never asked for more than that the Crown colony of Fiji shouM be permitted to engage labourers in India as do the similarly-governed colonies of Malaya and Ceylon; our conditions of employment are, of the three, by far the most favourable. As we could not see our way to continue the supply of New Zealand with sugar on the lines hitherto prevailing, becaues -of the maintenance there of control over selling prices by fie Government, we have offered to seil the Fiji crop 'o the Dominion, and to refine this under an agreement, on the lines of that in force in Australia for the past five years. Though the price asked is a remunerative one, the Government would get their supply at a rate very much below the present cost of similar sugar from Java.