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Levin Daily Chronicle, 17 November 1917, Page 3

Otaki's horticultural reputation was wortlily upheld at the Wellington Rose Club's annual show on Tuesday that enthusiastic grower, Mr Frank Penn, .Winning every first priao For roses (except in the novicc class). He secured: first prize for three, rf.x and twelVe blooms ; also for collection of roses (24 varieties), wfhile a vory fine specimen of "Mr® George Shawyer," was adjudged the champion bloom of the show. This is thei third occasion on which the champion bloom has been grown in Otaki, a striking evidence of the skill of the grower.

Referring to the large amount expended 011 luxuries by people in New Zealand during the present abnormal ■war conditions the Mayor of Auckland, Mr J. H. Gunson, stated that last winter more genuine poverty was known in Auckland than ever before. It was grim irony that almost within the shadow of the walls of the building to which supplicants came for relief there should be signs of the grossest extravagance in the shops in Queen Street. If the public expenditure on luxuries in New Zealand was £2,000,000 per annum, roughly only £500,000 of that went into the pockets or was circulated among local traders. Fully £1,000,000 of the sum named had to be paid to creditors abroad who supplied the luxuries. The Government took £250,000 in duties, and a further £250,000 was paid in freight. Mr Gunson said he was of the opinion that at a time like the present all traffic in luxuries, such as expensive wearing apparel, jewellery, motor-cars, ctc., should be prohibited. No cold is NAZOL proof. And no cough and cold "remedy is so economical as NAZOL. Eighteenpence buys 60 closes —more that three a peniy.—