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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10064, 31 August 1918, Page 2

Medical men recommend 'Groats.—Doctors’ Cream o' Grouts as a better and more, nourishing food for children and invalids. The sales by auction of growing crops of Kentish cherries, which have just begun, show that this fruit will be very scarce and dear this year (says an English paper of June last). Seven acres in one orchard at East Mating realised £l5O and seven acres’ in another orchard in the parish only £2. The highest price paid so far is £450 for fifty acres at Aylesford near Maidstone- A good deal of the fruit has been secured by London salesmen, who appear to be willing to pay almost any price. for it. During the ' week several small lots of the earliest cherries from the Maidstone district have sold for £1 per half-sieve. Superfluous Hair Destroyed without the pain or the possible disfigurement of Electrolysis. Eusma removes superfluous hair after the very first application, and in a little while it kills the tiniest; roots. Why suffer? Eusma offers YOU relief. You can apply it in your own home. A cure is GUARANTEED. Mrs Hullen, Beauty Specialist, 3, Courtenay place (next Blanket Nurses), Dept, D-, Wellington. —Advt. The position of the acting-lady superintendent at the Christchurch hospital was referred to in the report of the hospital committee submitted at a recent meeting of the Hospital Board. It was stated . that,; the, acting-lady superintendent was, ,to her disadvantage, loyally standMif. by the'hospital 'year-after year. The report continued: “When, in March, 1016, leave of absence was granted to Miss Thurston, nobody in New Zealand antieijrated that the war would run into the fifth year, and the end not be in sight. The' committee now suggestSithat the position be placed before Miss Hurston, who will no' doubt recognise the position in which Miss Muir is placed, and cither return to take "up her duties or resign- rather than aggravate a difficult position for one who, though inducements have offered, has stuck to her post and her. promise to ‘stand by.’” Mr’ H. J. Otley moved that the clause be deleted from the report, advancing as bis principal argument that to give" effect to it would be tantamount to the board breaking its- contract with Miss Thurston. On a division the motion was negatived by 13 votes to 5. The clausa was adopted.