"ASK LOASBY ABOUT IT.”

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1513, 24 April 1919, Page 21

"ASK LOASBY ABOUT IT.”

ROOM 24, HIS MAJESTY’S ARCADE. (The lift puts you down at my door.)

Before I can expect you to do -so I must give you my qualifications, briefly as follows:—

(1) I have had over 40 years’ experience as a Prescribing Chemist. For 12 years in Christchurch my business slogan, “Ask Loasby about it,” has been universally made use of by friend to friend when either was not too well. (2) I sold out my business (one of the biggest in New Zealand), and got the highest goodwill yet paid in the Dominion for a Chemist’s business.

(3) My business was built up from a very small turnover to its gigantic size entirely through my prescribing abilities.

(4) During the Influenza Epidemic I was sent by the Public Health Dept, and Hospital Board as an Official Medical Visitor to Rangiora. Ten days later I was appointed Medical Visitor for the Addington Block, and later had Sydenham Block as well. These I at- - tended to till the epidemic was over. (5) I was presented with a gold pendant, suitably inscribed, for the work I did during the epidemic in Christchurch.

(6) The residents of Rangiora made me a handsome presentation of plate, the money for which was raised by shilling subscriptions in recognition of my work during the Influenza Epidemic. (7) The Hospital and Charitable Aid Board sent me a letter thanking me for “Giving youi’ special professional knowledge in assisting members of the medical profession in visiting and prescribing for hundreds of sufferers.” The above will surely satisfy you that I am not an itinerant quack. I have a living breathing faith in my own abilities to prescribe for all minor ailments. I don't pretend to be a doctor or take a doctor’s place. If, in my opinion, your case requires the services of a doctor I will honestly tell you, and I make no charge for the advice. I successfully treat all cases of Indigestion, Flatulence, Heartburn, Headaches, Constipation, Sleeplessness, Nervousness, Poverty of Blood, Low Spirits, “that tired feeling — always tired,” Kidney and Bladder Troubles and the hundred and one other little ailments you occasionally get in your household. I supply my own remedies. My charges are for a full week’s medicine —Adults 4/6, Children 2/6, with advice free. Country patients treated by letter. Send me a full description of your case, enclose 8/6 for adults and 4/6 for children, and I will send you, post free, a double quantity of medicine with full directions for taking and any other advice necessary. A. M. LOASBY, THE ONLY PRESCRIBING CHEMIST. Over 40 years’ Practical and Successful

Experience.