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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11438, 7 February 1923, Page 4

APPLICATIONS ARE INVITED From Firms in a position to REPRESENT an ENGLISH ELECTRICAL HOUSE Handling ACCUMULATORS, ACCESSORIES, BATTERY MATERIAL, , LAMPS, SWITCHGEAR, ETC. Applicants to be in a position to distribute or to appoint and control Distributors for (a) The whole of the Dominion. (b) Either North or South Island. Applications are invited in the strictest confidence until February 2ttb, through Representatives now in Australia, addressed “POTENTIAL,” Care Gordon* and Gotc.h (Australasia)., Ltd., Sydney.

J L. ARCUS, • F.1.A.N.Z., Public Accountant and Auditor. Dominion Farmers’ Institute, Featherston, street, Wellington, • J A. GOLD, F.P.A. (N.Z.), -A* Public Accountant, Brandon Chambers, Brandon street, Telephone 934. Wellington, DON’T let your new ideas stagnate. Turn them into cash. Some of the world’s greatest Inventions were based on simple matter-of-fact notions. If you wish full reward for your ingenuity, havo your device patented and protected. Get the practical assistance of Messrs Baldwin and Hayward, Patent Attorneys* 111-113, Lambton quay <next Occidental Hotel), Wellington. Ask for free Ini yentor’s Guide.” MR BRIDGE, Dentist, Macaptby Chambers. 50, Willis street, opposite Hotel Windsor Telephone I&A2. A , SPECIAL Department for speedily remaking old or ill-fitting dentures, and repairing broken plates, crowns, etc. Hours { 9 to 5 ; Wednesday and Friday Evenings, 7 to 8. APPLES' APPLES (TtHB Health Week authorities strongly JL advise everybody to eat APPLES, which are good for vour skin and general health. Our RUSSETTA BEfVERAGE is prepared from the PURE JUICE of FRESHLY-PICKED APPLES. Ask foi it, and seen that you get it, or Ring us up. . All Hotels. Clubs, and Shops, Telephone 21-219. THOMSON. LEWIS AND CO.. LTD. THE EARNING POWER OF GOOD EYESIGHT JUSTIFIES the most careful attention to your eyes. Consult H. SPEAR, Eyesight Specialist, 7, Willis street, Wellington. Late Optician to the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. Dentistry at reasonable prices. Sets of Teeth £3 Ss 0 Remodelling Sets, from £2 2 0 Teeth Extracted Free when Sets required. Repairs at Shortest Notice. FPOST AND FfiOST. SURGEON DENTISTS. 119, Willis street.

The first of “the screw guns” to be supplied to the New Zealand. Artillery have now arrived, and will be issued to one battery in Auckland and one in Christchurch in the immediate future. These are the 3.7 in mountain howitzers, which are British post-war guns, and have already proved their worth in “quietening” the tribesmen cn the North-Western frontier of India. The special merit of “the screw gun” is that it is collapsible, and can be transported to almost any position to which a man and a mule can go. Two samples will be on view at the War -Materials Exhibition on Saturday next. The recent controversy over the closing of railway platforms to other than | passengers was mentioned at a meeting of the Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce, following receipt of a letter from the General Manager of Railways, stating that it had been found that the charging of entrance fees, with a view to reducing the number of persons on platforms during rush periods, was not effective, and it was absolutely necessary to impose restrictions. The secretary reported that he had consulted the local stationmaster, and he had instructed the staff that any business man desiring to go on the platform on business would be permitted to do so. Mr H. L. Young instanced occasions when it would he absolutely impossible to allow anybody on the station except the travelling public.

A settler from the hack country, chatting to a Waipa “Fost” reporter had some cauatic comments to make on things generally. He said that Crown land was being split up and balloted for 35 miles out from Te Awamutu, and the price fixed was most unreason-, able.. There were neither roads nor anything else, iand purely virgin bush was to be offered to settlers at £3 per acre. The Government, he added, had paid to the Maoris half a crown an acre. The estimated cost of surveying and roading was approximately 10s an acre, so that the Government wanted to make a profit of £2 7s 6d on the land. The Government was constantly appealing for men to take their families to the back country, and yet put every obstaole in their way. It was not the wealthy farmer generally who took up land in the wayback, but the struggling settler, to whom every penny meant a great deal. During one of the late electrical disturbances pervading Hastings and its surroundings, a man who was mowing the polo grounds at Twyford had a trying experience. Caught in the sudden fury of the storm, he made for the shelter of the polo pavilion. Whilst inside, he felt the whole building lifted up, twisted round, and dislodged from its piles, and becoming alarmed he tried to escape through the doorway, which, however, he found jammed making him a prisoner. Looking for an outlet, he tried ia window, which he was able to open, and ho succeeded in regaining his freedom into the midst of tho rain and lightning. He then found refuge in the residence of a neighbouring farmer, who, when the storm had subsided, went with him to inspect tho scene of the occurrence. They found that the pavilion had been luted clean off its foundations, and deposited some few feet away from its original position. Tho displacement of the structure was entirely duo to the force of the electricity with which tho atmosphere was charged, and was not in any way the result of wind, the air being comparatively calm at tie time.