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Otago Witness, Issue 3443, 9 March 1920, Page 23

POLICE PAY. . WELLINGTON, March 6. Requests have been received from the Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin, police for increased pay. Christchurch asks for 4s a day, the others for 6s. The Wellington police_ have not so far joined in". One day's holiday weekly is also asked for. In April last year constables were raised from 9s to 12s daily, but this is not considered sufficient, with allowances for rent, etc. An ordinary constable notar receives over £5 weekly, and a long-tervioe man nearly £6.

GUARD AGAINST ILLNESS Dr Williams' Pink Pills. There would be a good &eal less serious illness if people took proper precautions when they are just a little out of sorts. Self-neglect, a tendency not to take precautionary measures until one! is seriously ill, cause a lot of unnecessary suffering. There are particularly two danger signals that ought not to be neglected—shortness of breath after slight exertion, such as going up stairs, and a headache with bad appetite at breakfast time. People with these symptoms are always the people who fall victims of disease easily, because their blood is in an impoverished, impure state, and their power of resistance low. _ The way. to enrich your blood is to feed your blood. Ordinary food cannot help you to nourish the blood if you are out of sorts and already on the way to illness. It is necessary.to take concentrated blood food', and. fortunately, this can be obtained in Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, the most wonderful blood-building medicine ever discovered. An old family doctor first proscribed them : and . they have cured thousands of people who promptly took them in eases of nervous weaknesses and blood ailments, whioh .might have developed into serious disease. All dealers stock Dr "Williams' Pink Pills. Dr Williams' Pink Pills are sold at 3s per box, six boxes 16s 6d> . ' '• Any reader of this paper mav . have a useful booklet on "Diseases of the Blood" by writing to the Dr Williams' Medicine Co., Box 845, G.P.0., Wellington.

The Standing Committee of the Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association has approved the suggest.on of the Minister for Internal Affairs that representatives of the New Zealand Association should meet the Prince of Wales in the Legislative Council Chamber at 4.30 p.m. on April 27. .The committee has also decided to invite representatives of the local associations throughout the dominion to be present, and to rotcommend that mufti should be worn.