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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 100, 1 September 1923, Page 1

PUBLIC NOTICES. GIVEN AWAY! PHONOGRAPHS FOR SCHOOLS. School Teachers! School Committee! Get a handsome Cabinet Phonograph, valued at £SO, FREE for your school. Wouldn’t it be great! Beautiful music to help school concerts, singing, drill and &o forth. It is so easy, too. Ail you have to do is to collect the’coupons out of Planter’s Pride Tea packets, and when coupons representing 2000 points are in hand, post them to the address hereunder, and a Gramophone will be sent to your school. Persuade your friends and youf pupils* parents to use the economical beverage. » PLANTER’S PRIDE TEA and save the coupons. It won’t take long to collect the required number—many hands make light work. All j get busy NOW! Tile coupons count as follows;• 1 Yellow—in Jib packets, 1 Point, 1 Blue in 11b packets, 2 Points. 1 White—in 51b packets, 10 Points. 1 Red—/in 10!b packets, 20 Points. Your school can have as many Gramophones as you collect coupons for! One in each room if you like! All communications to "COMPETITION,” THE COLOMBO TEA CO. LTD., P.O. Box 474, Dunedin. Wholesale ’Distributors:— BURGESS, FRASER AND GO, LTD. STRATFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT. NOTICE TO CONSUMERS. "IyTOTIOE is hereby given that the Current will be off in all sections of the Borough between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. on September 2, 1923. . J. L. FERGUSON, Electrical Engineer.

PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE. REDUCTION IN CHARGES FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF * ESTATES, TT IS NOTIFIED f or< public infor- “*■ motion that important reductions have been made in the commission charged by the Public Trustee ior the administration of Estates. Commission on the capital of Estates when realised is now charged according to the following scale: On the first £SOOO, 2-' per cent. On the next £SOOO, If per cent. On the next £40,000. 1 per cent. On excess of £50,000. 4 per cent. As an exception to this scale, the charge on certain estates of not more than £IOOO is value is— On the first £4OO. 5 per cent. On balance, 2J per cent. Income Charges: The commission charged on rent or on interest on mortgages has been reduced from 5 per cent, to 2£ per cent, on amounts in excess of £SOO per annum. The concessions apply to estates under administration by the Public Trustee on the Ist April, 1923, and on estates accepted after that date. Full particulars of the reduced charges may be obtained on application at any Branch of the Public Trust Office. J. W MACDONALD. Public Trustee. STRATFORD DISTRICT FALLEN SOLDIERS. / MEMORIAL FUND. rpnE Committee of the Stratford A ' District Fallen Soldiers Memorial Fund Invite voluntary subscriptions to the fund. 4. generous respond has already been made to the call, but it is hoped that everyone in the district will take part in the movement and the Committee will therefore welcome subscriptions, however large or however small.

Subscriptions may be forwarded to any member of the General Committee on, to the Hon. Treasurer, Mr Percy Thomson. COMMITTEE. J. W. McMillan (chairman), P. Thomson (Hon. Treasurer), Mrs D. Steven, W. P. Kirkwood,' S. Macallster, Dr. D, Steven, Dr. W. P. P. Gordon, R. Masters M.P., P. Skoglund, D. J. Malone, J. McAllister, A. E. Copping, J. S. Lyons, N. R. Cleland, B. Walter, H. E. Abraham, G. E. Bocock, W. Power (Hon. Secretary.) Mr W. Power, Hon. Secretary, will be pleased to answer any enquiries. j. w. McMillan, Chairman of Committee. MTRLSI No need to hesitate; LX married life i« dne lons holilay. thanks to “NO-RD BEING” jaundry Help. Master* Ltd