The Rockefeller Foundation of New York lias <>iven £50,000 to establish a Choir of Obstetrics at Hongkong I’nivcrsity. Iri the big London dance halls the glossinesec of the floor is due to a powder which is now available for use in private houses. Transform any room in your house into an excellent ball room by sprinkling the floor with London Ballroom Powder. A large tin costs only 2s 6d. Your storekeeper stocks it. Try a tin K 67 The growth of the fur industry in the Dominion has Been remarkably rapid with the spread of the 'possums adding to tfie existing trade in rabbitskins.. Xow a new fur lias come on the market in the pelts of Ihe bush rat, .supposed to be a cross between the imported rat and the native rat, which was the only one known to the Maoris. The hush-rat' is said to bo chiefly a leaf-eater. The. fur is of a slaty blue-brown, and a Wellington firm has just received an order for 10,000 bush-rat stores. For Children’s Hacking Cough, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. —1 The prices of all brands of Benzoline, motor spirits and benzine wfre advifircd Is (id per ease in Auckland on Monday. Further increases are predicted following the proposed imposition of an export tax by the American Government. Don’t discuss your invention-idea until you have consulted us about its protection and development. No matter how trivial your notion may seem to you, there is probably big money in it if marketed in the right way. Come and dial the. matter over. Henry Hughes, Ltd. (Directors: W. F. Hughes and J. T. Hunter, Regd. Patent Attorneys). 157 Featiierston Street., Wellington. Local Agents : Ball and C'rawslntw. —0
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16405, 11 April 1924, Page 7
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