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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 28, 1909
Page
1
Prootoids are advertised as a powerful cure for blood and liver issues with claims of headache relief and improved digestion. The notice urges readers to send orders to W. G. Hearne in Geelong and notes a price of 1 shilling 6 pence with chemists and medicine vendors stocking the product.
Curiosity over Australian grapes to New Zealand shows public prices kept low after the New Zealand ban was lifted. A shipper reports lower margins if duties and freight persist and urges duty removal next season. Australian frozen mutton faces British palate challenges but wool exports remain strong enough to justify continued trade.
At the Iron and Steel Institute meeting in London last month Charles H Meys described electricity as a major cost saver, reducing coal use and smoke. He noted Lyne shipyards and engineering works favoring electric power and new industries forming from cheap power, with waste heat and gases guiding future by product electricity. Cooperation to distribute surplus power and gas engine use were highlighted.
A Paris based so called situation adviser used a pack of cards to tell young women, especially domestic staff, whether to quit posts or take new work. One girl discarded her job for a better offer only to fail and attempt suicide in the Seine after being misled. The adviser admitted advising hundreds of maids and waiters for a fee.
The President defends the lock canal choice as safer cheaper and faster than sea level plans arguing sea level would require 40 million more and five years longer to build and would risk passage of large vessels. Construction aims to finish by January 1 1915 despite ongoing criticisms.
Miss Sephy Fender describes two months of facial pimples that resisted remedies before Laxo-Tonic Pills cleared the patch within two days. She notes initial skepticism, then rapid drying and removal after 24 to 48 hours, leaving clear skin. Pills sold by chemists at 4d and 1s6d, post free from Laxo-Tanje Pills Sompery Ltd, Sydney.
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