FIRM FOUNDATION.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5221, 30 December 1927, Page 2

FIRM FOUNDATION.

NOTHING CAN UNDERMINE IT.

People are sometimes slow to recognise true merit, and they cannot be blamed, for so many have been humbugged in the past. The experience of hundreds of people, expressed publicly through newspapers and other sources, places Doan’s Backache Kidney Pilis on a Arm foundation here.

Mrs H. Ashby, Devon Street. Waihi, says :—“ For some time a member of my family suffered agony with kidney disease. The secretions were thick and cloudy, his back constantly ached, and he had dropsical swellings on his legs and ainkles. At night his rest was disturbed, consequently he got up in the morning feeling tired and weary. The agony he suffered with backache was terrible, and I have seen him so bad that he was completely crippled with the ailment, and compelled to lie up for. days at a stretch. He took medicines of different kinds, but they were powerless to give him r®Hef. A friend advised him to try Doan’s Backache Kidney Pills, so he bought some. One bottle did him good, hnd he went on taking them until he was cured, using in all eight bottles. They are grand pills, and I would like other sufferers to know of the wonderful cure they effected.”

Six years later Mrs Ashby says:— “ The cure referred to still holds good. I need not enlarge on this, the facts speak for themselves.” Doan’s Backache Kidney Pills are sold by all chemists and storekeepers, Foster-McClellan Co., Proprietors, 15 Hamilton Street, Sydney But, be sum you* get DOAN’S.

CHRISTMAS EVE.

PAEROA STREETS THRONGED.

A HAPPY, JOYOUS CROWD.

Never before in the history of Paeroa has the principal streets presented such an animated throng of people as they did on Saturday night, Christmas Eve. Throughout the day they were lined with motorcars and other vehicles, and as. late evening advanced the inumbers increased.

The, brilliancy of the shop windows has never been excelled before, and people from the surrounding district were not slo.w to show appreciation of the efforts of the shopkeepers; to cate,r for so important a season. The fact that several cars and two large motor-bus loads of people from Waihi made Paeroa their shopping centre on Christmas Eve, speaks volumes flor the enterprise of the local retailers. It was a wonderfully happy crowd that thronged the streets to a late hour. The happy laughter and smiling faces of adults as they made their way parcel-laden through the crowd to their homes made a pleasure to remember. People who had come into town from a distance, were, to be seen depositing parcels of all shapes and sizes in their motor-cars and returning for more. The joyous laughter of young folk, accompanied by the sounds of squeakers, trumpets, and numerous other toys which emitted weird noises, was a feature of the evening’s fun, and the* rendering of appropriate music by the Salvat’on Army Band added to the gaiety ! n the streets. Seasonal greetings were freely extended and heartily reciprocated, and the greatest goodwill prevailed. After a very hot and cloudy day a thunderstorm broke over the, town in the e.arly evening, and in a few moments a torrential downpour followedMany busy shoppers, .desirous of avoiding the eleventh-hour rush, were caught unprepared for such a sudden change, in the. elements. The. spirits of many children went down to zero when the rain commenced, for they were afraid that the, long-looke.d-for-ward-to trip to town on Christmas- Eve would be cancelled. Happily, however, the clerk of the weather saw fit to remember that it was a season of goodwill towards all mankind, and the heavens cleared after about an hour’s rain and a fine evening prevailed. Owing to the general improvement in the condition of all roads leading to Paeroa —and there are many—the heavy rain did not deter settlers from visiting the town. There can be little doubt that Santa Claus v’sitcd Paeroa and carried out his work thoroughly and brought delight and pleasure to many homes. Love and happiness abounded, and Christmas, 1927, will be looked back upon by young and old as being one of the happiest experienced at Paeroa.