GERMAN TRADE PUSH

Hokitika Guardian, 6 March 1925, Page 3

GERMAN TRADE PUSH

LONDON'. Jan. *2. That cheap (iiTimm goods are finding an increasingly large market in Kenya. liritish Fast Africa, is stated by a correspondent at .Mombasa of Fast A Inca. He writes: “ Herman ales, deers, and wines me arriving in sued quantities Hint we no longer have the slightest hesitation admit drinking them. Their biscuits, sweets, and tinned goods are entering the market. Cement, galvanised sheets, earthenware, glassware, hardware, aluminium goods, iron and steel goods, safes, iron, copper, and brass wire, locks, all are pouring in from the Fatherland. Axes seem to he almost entirely of Oerman minufacture. while the trade in hoes, shovels, and other agricultural tools is rapidly being wrested from its old channels. Articles of native finery are more and more of Herman make. The trade in heads is now very largely in their hands. ( heap clocks and watches promise to become something like a mono-

poly. Even German bicycles are beginning to appear—and if there is one line in which the British metal-work manufacturer should have continued to rule the market it is in bicycles.

enemy of teeth. LONDON, dan. 2

Recent investigations into the causes of decay of teeth carried out at the Middlesex Hospital. Morl.imer-slreot. Regent-street, W.. have now H.own that the bacteria which arc the ultimate agency in destroying the ciiaiue are often present in milk. Ibis suggests that milk may he a source ol infection. • . . • The task facing the bacteriologists is to find some defence against this microbe .which probably causes a greater mass of suffering and ill-healta than anv other disease germ. \ t the hospital a reporter was tom vesterday that decay is a complex affair, hut the ultimate destruction ot the teeth is due to bacteria. “Infection is universal m our conditions of life.” said one of the doctors. “The strength of disinfectants suitable for use in the mouth and necessary to kill the organisms in five mmutes is too great to he practicable. . “The best protection is to keep the teeth clean. They should he brushed nioht and morning, but many people neglect- the night brushing, winch is the more important of the two.”