NEWS AND NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20667, 4 March 1937, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

Commencing at 1.30 p.m. to-day at School Road, Fairlie, A. N. Oakey and Co. will conduct a clearing sale of choice household furniture. Chesterfield suite and tent for Mrs L. M. Brice. The sale will be held wet or fine, in Potter’s Hall if wet. H. Allchurch and Co. insert a reminder of the sale of heavy roofing iron. Oregon, rimu and totara timber and numerous other lines which they are selling to-day on the premises of the Public Works Department at Grant’s Hill. Fuller details of the sale were advertised in yesterday’s “Herald.” The new business written by the Government Life Insurance Department for the year ended December 31, 1936, totalled £2,863.186. The figure establishes a new record for the Department, and represents an increase of 43 per cent over the previous record year, 1935, when £2,005,128 worth of new business was secured. The following figures for the last five years reflect the steady growth of the Department's new business:—l932, £1,104,644; 1933, £1,294,906; 1934, £1,661,740; 1935, £2,005,128; 1936, £2,863,186. Keep free from all Germ by using any of the following: lodised throat tablets 1/6 bottle, antiseptic throat tablets 6d and 1/6 tin, formalin throat tablets 1/6, germosal gargle 2Z-, antleptic nasa) drops 1/6 eucalyptu.' 60 ind !/-, antiseptic throat spray 2/camphor 2d, 4d and 8d block, permanganate of potash as a gargle 6d end 1/packet. We deliver any ot these articles to any part of the town or suburbs without any extra charge. Nc extra charge if posted to the country E. C Ayres. Ltd., chemists, 78 Station Street South, Timaru. ....

Keep Away All Germs.—We special!) recommend Formalin Lavender as a spray for rooms and closed motor cars Price 1/-, 2/- bottle. Sprays tor using this can be obtained from us, price 1/6 2/- and 2/6. Stewart's disinfectant Is the most powerful germicide to put in ;he drains and sprinkle arounc the yard It has a pleasant smell and is highly effective as a killer ot germs Price 1/- large bottle or 7/6 gallon tin Any of these articles sent post or rail tree. E. C. Ayres, Ltd., chemists. 78 tafford St. South. Timaru. ....