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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11684, 23 November 1923, Page 8

In every State of tho Commonwealth the number of applicants for the maternity allowance is diminishing (says the Melbourne “Age”). Taken m conjunction with the fact that 99 per oent. of eligible women claim the allowance, the circumstance would indicate ■ a steady shrinkage of the birth-rate. In two years the number of claimants during the four months, Jiily-October, has been reduced _by nearly 1000. ■ In 1921, over thia four months’ period, 46,201 claims were granted; in 1922, the number increased to 46,478, but in 1923 it fell away to 45,266. The £5 bonus costs taxpayers of the Commonwealth £690,000 a year. The problem of discovering a wiser and sounder plan of assisting necessitous mothers, particularly over ante-natal 1 difficulties, has been relegated to the National Insurance Commission. By Orders-in-Council gazetted yesterday, 6 per cent, has been fixed as the maximum rate of interest at which tho following local body loans may be raised: —Inglewood County Council, £I2OO, for the erection of county offices; Waikato Hospital Board, £6OOO. for capital expenditure: Featheraton County Council, £I6OO, for bridge over the Whakarua stream; Taranaki Electric Power Board, loans totalling £60,000, for the construction of electric works and reticulation; Patangata County Council, £IO,OOO for renewing all the bridges in the county, bridge plant, etc. Sprier colds quickly banished by "NAZOL.” Inhaled or taken on sugar, it has a wonderful healing effect. 60 doses for Is Cd-