The Railway Department’s bus services between Wellington and Lower Hutt and between Napier and Hastings and those in the South Island also were run at a loss last year. The Hutt Valley service is by far the biggest, having taken 2,336,000 fares out of a, total of 2,919,000 for all services. The aggregate loss was £9327, of which the Hutt buses accounted for £7200.
“The extraordinarily low infant mortality in this country is, I consider, due more* to our sunny climate than anythino- else,” said Dr. R. H. Makgill, when delivering a health paper before the Auckland Institute the other evening. “A great deal of the child’s early life is spent in the garden ,in New Zealand, and the babies are put out in their cots, on the verandahs, where they get fresh air and sunshine. We in New Zealand owe a great deal more to sunlight than we realise.”
In a year you will scarcely know h® the same boy—they grow that fast. . But photographs of the children never grow up. New styles and low prices at Oakley a Studio, Hash Buildings (upstairs), Devon Street, New Plymouth. • The Melbourne Ltd’s showing of new, season’s printed cambrics is unique, . andl comprises all the very latest designs in “Cobber” cambrics, l/L} yard; cambrics at 1/6 yard, and “80-peep’ cam* brics at 1/9 yard These lovely new prints have completely ousted the old-fashion a ginghams for ladies and childrens dresses. Patterns supplied on application.
It- is most unusual, but then you see i* is not every day that we move into Jarger premises. As our present shop is full cd new season’s goods and more arriving y every boat, thinking we would be m ou? new premises, we are forced to make and are, therefore, running a removal sals of new goods. So save on your summer outfit by buying at McGruers, New Plymouth- hi..'.. rLu..-.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1929, Page 8
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