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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2372, 24 December 1921, Page 1

THE HMST LAXATIVE. When I lie proper dose of Chamberlain's To blots is taken, their action is so gentle that you do not realise it has been produced by medicine. They also improve the appelite and strengthen the digestion. They make you look better and feel better. Give them a. trial. For sale everywhere.—Advt.

\\ illi tlic increased taxation on racing dividends, patrons of Lite totnlisator will begin to think lliat the odds against them are Loo heavy, says “Merenlio" in the N.Z. Herald. 01 every pound placed on Lite machine, the racing club lakes Is lid, and Ihe Government (id, before the dividends are counted, so that only 18s remains tor distribution among the backers of the winning horses. Now (lie lloveriunent will take Is of every pound or fraction of a pound in the declared dividends. Theoretically, 17s of every pound originally invested will go back to the public, but actually the proportion will generally be less, and allowance has still to be made tor the “fractious.” Thus, the certainty that the whole body of investors lose money on the totalizator will be greater than ever. However, the taxes on the totalizator are what are known among economists as “painless.” The declared dividends are the net amounts — the winners are Loo elated to calculate their contributions to the Treasury, and the losers suffer too much to consider the effects of the tax.

A Business Talk with Business Men. —“There is a vast difference between wishing and winning. Many a good man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone ought to have been.” Are you wishing for more business, but lack the winning? Advertising is a sure enough Winner, but it needs backbone in the man directing it. Advertising doesn’t bring results with a jerk. The beginning is slight, but the pressure is constant, and increasing all the time. The open season for hunting business lasts all the year round, but just now the game is particularly well worth going after. The best ammunition is an anvertisement in “The Manawatu Herald.”*

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