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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17325, 27 May 1918, Page 6

A Wellington optician in a large way of business states that the trade, in common with others, is suffering through the effects of tho war. Those who were fortunate enough to hold big stocks of lenses in 1914 may still be able to supply all demands, but the shortage in this line is growing very acute. Host of tho lenses used in New Zealand come from America, and tho controlling company there is already finding it difficult to get tho skilled labour required owing to the call for men to avenues of military employment and: active service. Lenses are also imported in smaller quantities from France in normal times, but this source of supply has been completely cut off for three years past. Apart from the lenses, frames and the fittings for frames for pince-nez and spectaclcs are also in short supply. Many people vrero of opinion that* one© the ballot commenced to mako its inroads into the Second Division many houses would bo thrown upon the market; but this is apparently far from being tho case. In conversation with a leading land and estate agent, a Lyttelton Timers reporter was informed that never in his knowledge of ths business had houses toon so scarce and hard to get as at tho present moment. "If I had 50 houses of modern appointment, or bungalow style, placed in my hands for letting or other disposal, I would undertako to get clear of the last one within three days. There are, of course, many old houses, for which it is always hard to secure tenants, owing t-o various reasons, but even somo of theso are being renovated and furbished up because of tho constant stream of seekers for dwellings." Tho agent also said that numbers of old houses were meeting a different fate—they wore being pulled down for tho value of the iron that was in them. The reasons for tho present scarcity, ho considered, were tho almost practical cessation of building, owing to prevailing', high cost of everything, and the fact that a steady marriage rate was eaoli week responsible for additional home-seekers. Waterloo bridge, London, was named after the battle of Waterloo. It, was opened in state on tho second anniversary of Waterloo, 1817, by George IV. He was accompanied by the Duke of Wellington a.nd a number of officers who had fought in tho battle. Let NAZOL protect your family against coughs and colds. Ono dose a day keeps colds away. Good for old and young. Sixty roacs Is 6d.