NEWS AND NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17787, 12 August 1929, Page 11

NEWS AND NOTES.

INTERESTING ITEMS.

Britain’s yearly bills for bread and milk are curiously level, spending £80,000,000 .on bread and £86,500,000 bn milk.

For all mattress, upholstery and renovation needs ' ring 3386.—J. Tre - varton, opp. Savings Bank.

There are now about 3000 trades in vhlch gas Is used for Industrial pro;O3SC3.

Lower grade mental deficiency is more prevalent among boys than girls, the difference being as much as 30 per cent.

Positively the last week of Trevarton’s Bedding Sale. Your chance to buy cheap bedding. ’Ph0n0.3386.

The first pithead baths for colliers in, North Wales will be erected at the Llay Main Colliery, near Wrexham, at i cost of about £20,000.

' Kapok beds from 19/- up. Pillows from 2/9, all kapok. All our beds aro made on the premises.—J. Treyarton, phone 3386.

M. Gustave Adolphe Reiss, of Strasbourg, who represented that city in the German Reichstag from 1898 to 1907, has died, in his 80th year.

“Now,” the little ’flu germ said, “I’ll give that man a cold in the head Alas! The little germ is dead; “Anti-Flu” got hin Instead.

Anti-Flu is a powerful remedy for influenza and colds in ihe head, and is sold for 2/- per bottle by J. M. de Montaik, Chemist, Frankton.

A bathroom mounted on a motor chassis has just been completed by a British motor firm for the Nawab of Bhopal. The equipment comprises a fUll-size bath, dressins-table, bed, and .chest of drawers, the water for the bath being heated by the exhaust from the engine of the car.

Threatening showers on Saturday morning did not dampen the enthusiasm of the many Hamiltonians who made their way to Morrinsville for the

Peace Cup match. In some cases i enthusiasm had been blended with caution, for it was observed that two “fans” purchased a bottle each of Baillies’ Kowhai Cough Cure before making the trip. 1/6 and 2/6, of Baillies’, Ltd., Chemists, Victoria Street, Hamilton.

The rainfall at Greenwich (Eng.) for the first 80 days of this year was only liln—the lowest on record for 115 years.

Smart women who desire correct lines select their corsclettes at Glencoe House.

The amount of industrial wages lost each year in Russia through absence owing to drink is £13,500,000, whilst the loss of productivity through drunkenness is £60,000,000.

At Carde’s, Frankton: 36in heavy twill wlnceyette, 1/3, In sky, pink, cream; men’s woollen sox, 1/-.

The Swedish '-Industries '“.'Fair was held at Gothenburg from May 26 to June 2, In the building originally ejected for the engineering section of ‘ the Gothenburg Exhibition a'few years ago. It Is the largest timber structure of its kind In the world.

In the United States and Its possessions there are roads totalling 3,019,035 miles, which is 13,000 more than those in practically all the rest of the world, excluding the Americas.