THE BEST HOLIDAY DRINK.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1924, Page 7

THE BEST HOLIDAY DRINK.

Price’s is welcome any time of day—and it’s so easy t.o pack. See that you take a good supply away with you. A 1/6 bottle of Price’s Concentrated Beverage makes three gallons of delicious thirstquenching summer drink. Take your chpice from Pineapple, Raspberry, Orange Kola, Russet Apple, etc. Demand “Price’s.” 2.

The roast beef of old England is nothing without Hayward’s “Military” Pickles. Sold by all grocers. Refuse substitutes.

ing Mr. Wilbur (Secretary of the Navy) to give the House information concerning any foreign Power's objections to the gun elevation. ' CABINET DIVIDED.

Another complicating aspect was introduced by an alleged statement by Baron Kato in Tokio that Japan had unofficially declined the American offer to send a fleet on a courtesy visit to Japanese ports. Washington authorities declined to comment on this, and now Mr. Shidehara denies that, any such offer was made or that Baron Kato made such a statement.

The Senate, ivhich hitherto has apparently remained silent over the various controversies, now has entered toe arena over the gun elevation aspect, and probably will join th? House in asking tor information from Mr. Wilbur.

The Press meantime is : actively taking sides. Such newspapers as the New York Times in.sjst that the manoeuvres are America's right. Only a figment of the imagination could ascribe them to unfriendliness towards Japan. The Radical weekly, the Nation, and the St. Louis Post Dispatch and others contend that, irrespective of America’s rights to hold the manoeuvres, it would be unwise to give fuel to Japanese jingoes. Some inkling concerning the extent of the controversy can be gained when it is mentioned that respon-. sible Washington correspondents agree that Cabinet itself is seriously divided over the merits of the various questions, and it would not be surprising should Mr. Wilbur, who belongs, to the larger navy group, resign as a result of the differences of opinion with President Coolidge. This possibility is denied, but it is incontrovertible that an actual demarcation of opinion exist* in the administration.