Why You Should Mix Wai-Rongoa With Your Drink.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1917, Page 2

Why You Should Mix Wai-Rongoa With Your Drink.

For or.e thing, it makes it more palatable, more refreshing Wai-Ror - goa Natural Mineral Water is delightful to the taste—so cooling and invigorating—and it imparts these qualities to whatever it is blended, whether with whisky, brandy or milk. Then, ton, it adds a touch of healing io a whisky, Th 9 tendency of the human system ia to accnmolate uric acid, which causes rheumatism, gout, stones and other ailments, Wai-Ron-goa expels nric acid from the body. It is a great cleanser. The natural properties ic contain?, while adding to its taste, help to cleanse and stimulate the kidneye, to wash the blood, and to render one immune from the distressing complainls alluded to. Take it invariably with your diink, or by itself if need be. In syphons at clubs, hotels, Btores, chemists.

The Jane sailed this atternoon for Bruce Bay.

The Hokitika district schools excursion takes place to Like Mahinapua on the 21st, to-morrow week.

The Government offices throughout New Zealand will be closed on April 6 (Good Friday), April .7, and April 9 (Easter Monday )] The following local men are mentioned as having been notified of selection in the third ballot —Emanuel Bowdeu, J. J. Brocklehuvst, John McCormick (South Spit), Lawrence Kirwan.

The monthly meeting of the Westland County Council took place tb a afternoon. A full report will a. pear to-moirow.

A Heefton correspondent writes ; —A young business man who acted the Samaritan gave a strange enstab’e in plain clothes a lift along the road to the Progress Junction. On arriving at tho hotel he got out of his trap, and went into tho bar with a£o note showing in his hand. Tho strange friend also presented himself at the bar with a £1 note in his hand. Th* man with £5 required change. The stronger exiled for beer and lemonade. Tin barman asked tho £5 note man if he was drinking. He named sarsparilla. Whilst the barman was handing the four notes to his friend the constable pushed his glass along the counter for another drink, a “shandy” the other man also taking another draw from the sarsparilla bottle, Tho barman then gave the change to the reactive men, taking one shilling from each for their two drinks, and as the barman refused to hive a drink at the request of tho constable, the constable laid an iuformation against his kind friend for “treating,” and against the licensee for “permiiting.” The magistrate ruled he could not convict on these charges.