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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIX, Issue 17, 26 October 1907, Page 51

The foundation of lifelong ill health may be laid for young girls by failure to keep their strength and health up to normal. Stearns' Wine is best for tl-m because it is a true tonic. An appeal is being made in England for funds to undertake the great task of excavating the ruins of Memphis, the work to be done under the auspices of the British School of Archaeology. It is strange that the exploration of the ancient. Egyptian capital has been deferred so long, And it is expected that England will now do for Memphis what tile French government has done for Delphi and tlio Germans for Olympia. The sites of the four groat temples aro plainly market, to that exploration can begin at once. This mass of ruins covers 100 acres, as much as the whole of the site at Karnak, and it is estimated that 15.000doj«. will lie needed annually foj- fifteen years to accomplish the workimportant matcti.il is l>elievcd to lie within a few yaagls of the surface, so that results sh’oiild la' reached promptly.