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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20510, 31 August 1936, Page 2

The oldest steamer in New Zealand, the Union Company's Opihi, which had been lying in the ’Wellington Rotten Row for many months past, ended her 50 years’ career this week, when she left the harbour in tow of the Terawhiti, and was scuttled in deep water off Cape Taurakirae. There was no Union Jack among the decorations at the recent military ball at Wellington, but there was a German flag with swastika, and on each side of it an Italian flag, said the Dominion president of the South African War Veterans’ Association (Mr J. I. Goldsmith) at the annual conference at Wellington recently. He had drawn the commanding officer’s attention to this position, and he expressed astonishment, continued Mr Goldsmith. However, nothing was done. It showed how neglectful people could be in certain respects.

The opinion that New Zealand’s products are adequately advertised at Home, but that the country’s attractions as a tourist resort are not made known to anything like the same extent was expressed by Mr W. W. Aitcheson, travelling representative of the London publishing firm of Butterworth and Co., who arrived at Dunedin

by the Port Fairy. Mr Aitcheson, who is on holiday leave at present, said that New Zealand was practically unknown to the majority of people at Home, and even some of the passengers on the ship coming out had been rather inclined to regard themselves as pioneers coming to a new land If posters depicting the Dominion’s wonderful scenic beauties were used in place of the familiar pictures of Maori women, it would quickly be appreciated that v ew Zealand was not a place peopled by Natives and a few whites, and the ignorance winch existed at present would disappear. The country’s primary products, however, were advertised on a different scale, posters depicting Dominion fruit, :ncr.t and dairy produce being prominently displayed in all the larger towns of Great Britain and even in many of the larger villages. Coughs and Colds.— When you have a cough, don’t experiment. Take a tried and proved remedy made by a chemist of experience. Tusso is such a remedy. It is equally efficacious whether the cough is of a bronchial nature or an ordinary tickling cough. It quickly effects the removal of the phlegm, and allays the tickling sensation in the throat. It is equally safe for either children or adults. Keep a bottle in the home for Immediate use when necessary. Price 1/6 and 2/6 bottle. E. C. Ayres Ltd.. Chemist, 78 Stafford Street, South, Timaru.