The Bankers' Trust Company publishe statistics of Insolvency' of Great Britain showing that the number of cases and the estimated loss to creditors- have diminished greatly since 1914. In that year there were 4043 cases and the estimated loss was £8,155,673; in 1919 the numbei of cases'was 9io and the loss had diminished to £1,971,892. The attempt to draw inferences from statistics of this sort' may lead to a conclusion that business men are on safer ground when they have a depreciated' currency, and plenty of it, than when they have honest money and not enough of It to go around. . - A few shillings spent in the free use of Nazol to protect the mucous mem: branes of the mouth,- nose, and throat from coughs, colds, sore throat, etc., u bitter tb am hour'l’ of euff«ipg.~&
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15459, 2 March 1921, Page 5
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136Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15459, 2 March 1921, Page 5
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