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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3029, 16 March 1917, Page 6

.4 notiOcation in this issito how tho steam laundry proprietors doing business in Wellington indicates tliat the trade is foeiing acutely tho increase in working costs. Oil" man in tho bi-.si.etws states that, so»'8 materials ha,ve{ risen 20(1 per cent, /'.tiring two year?. Led it was difficult to secure coal supplies even at 50 per rani. ever pre-war rates. The nnostion of i'ilxiur also bulks largely, the laundry proprietors having had their charges greatly increased, first by a* award which g?.ve increase to the bands and also a. war bonus, and latterly by the increase in cost of delivery. "The launderers are linpefui that conditions will soon relax, and havo adopted as a temporary expedient the method of an advance or. each invoice a.s explained in the notice.

Red Cross advices from Salonika state that in tho presence of tho Crown Princo of Serbia, General Tersiteh, Minister of War, and General Boyovitcli, Commander-in-Chief, tho 30 a'mbulai'ees and two motor kitchens sent I>V the .Initi'v War Committee of the RrilNh Red fV>s>- So<"" f v ami the Order"! Si -'.ohi!. to ilit- Medical Services of tho Serbian Army were formally handed over.ready for immediato aatk*.