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Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 14957, 3 January 1919, Page 4

i "The returned soldiers are not going to allow their names to be used in connection with any outside project to abstract money from the pockets of the public," said Mr. 0. T. J. Alpers at a meeting of the Returned Soldiers' Memorial Hall Fund Committee, .held at Chnstchurch. "Anyone who wants to drag in their name into any such project -will be promptly turned down, and there is going to be no misuse of this name. If any name has been scandalously misused during this last year or two" it is that of the Belgians. We have had 'Belgian buns,' 'Belgian biscuits,' 'Belgian sarisages,' and all that kind of thmg, and the practice has been simply scandalous and sickening. We are going to see to it that the soldiers' name isl not traded on;"

The scarcity of matches in England is humorously indicated in this "free advertisement" from London "Punch" : "A correspondent would like to hear from any. man .who contemplates striking. -a .match in South Kensington, with a view to sharing same." More seriously, Professor Henry Spooner, in "Health from Waste," says that in the interests of economy matches should be so made as. to. strike at both ends. Waste, he remarks, goes on in nearly every direction. Apart from big items, look at some of the small ones. There is waste of candles, mustard (which should be made up in paste form), pins (which are made and" lost by the million), string (the ragpicker? of Paris earn £660 a year out of bits of string in the rubbish boxes), and tram and 'bus tickets (which if dropped into a box at the end. of the London vehicles alone might be sold for £6 a day).