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Waipa Post, Volume XII, Issue 943, 18 May 1920, Page 4

There are 16 miles of subterranean wine cellars beneath the French cities of Rheims and Epernay.

Coal used for household purposes in Great Britain amounts to 30,000,000 tons a year ; industries use nearly 190,000,000 tons annually.

Mr T. Coverdale will be in Te Awamutu shortly to make final arrangements for the house on his Te Kawa estate.

It is announced that the directors of the Bank of New Zealand have granted a general bonus of 10 per cent to all members of the staff, and an additional five per cent to all married men drawing £4OO per annum and under.

Two young Swedish students of geology, after an adventurous nine days' expedition in Iceland, have discovered what is believed to be the largest crater in the world, measuring five miles in length, and 31 miles (wide. The two students further claim to have discovered some warm springs. K::,wakawa (North of Auckland) is grov/ing in importance as a shipping port, and the creation of a Harbor Board is contemplated. The erection of a freezing works with a capacity of 100.000 carcases Is expected to be competed by December next, and the nisat will be shipped at Opua, where there is a maximum depth cf six fathoms of water.

Infectious germs which lodge n» the mucruc: of the mouth and throat are destveyed ly Saarland's Formalin ThrraL Tab Jets (Mint or Cinnamon Flavour). Sold everywhere. 2/. *5

Nominations are .invited to fill three extraordinary vacancies on the M-anKjahoe Drainage Board. It view of the of % the controversy which has recently taken place as to contemplated works 1 - in this drainage area there is almost sure to be a spirited contest. Ncir.inations must be lodged with the returning oOcer (Mr D. Bockett) "before noon on Thursday, 27th instant.

A powerful germicide to destroy infectious germs in the mouth and throat will be found in Saarland's Formalin Throat Tablets (Mint or Cinnamon Flavour). Sold everywhere, 2/. *3

Not every man who attends the stock sales at Te Awamutu is qualified to drive stock. This fact is made evident week after week to property owners whose 4ands abut on the legalised stock roads in the borough, and who suffer the consequences of amateur stock-driving. The novices invariably have a pack of dogs which go pellmell after the cattle and cause no end of commotion. With them, stockdriving is a noisy procedure: there is much shouting and a considerable mis-use of whip and dogs. Before much distance is- covered the affrighted cattle will go through any fence—and they do, much to the annoyance of property owners, who hitherto having been striving to cultivate a garden. It is about time that stock-drovers were licensed; it would save quite a number of novices from making themselves look ridiculous.

Protect your mouth and throat from the disease germs which are very prevalent in the air just now—by using Sharland's Formalin Throat Tablets (Mint or Cinnamon Flavour-. Sold everywhere, 2/. *7

The essence ot all knowledge is self knowledge. Scientific Character Reading by return registered mail. Send Birth Date, Month, Year, and Postal Note 5/, to T. J. DUNSTONE, Box 1418, Auckland.*