RED CROSS “OUR DAY” APPEAL

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9791, 15 October 1917, Page 9

RED CROSS “OUR DAY” APPEAL

Great -preparation? are in train for the "Our Day"’ Bed Cross celebrations ' Thursday next. Stalls for tile sale of goods are allotted for all parts cf the city for the sale of rio’.rers, sweets, etc. The Commercial Travellers. with their characteristic originality, are arranging another attractive moneymaker. The amalgamated railway servants from Petone are providing an attractive lorry, for sale o: article; of all descriptions. A concert party assisted by Mr Paul Stanhope’s Berne Company, bv permission of Messrs Fuller, Ltd., will parade the city in aid of the cause. In the evening a torchlight proces-ion, headed by the Military and the Patriotic Society’s Bands will bring to a close the day’s proceeding’s.

diphtheria and throats. With Diphtheria and other throatepidemics prevalent, every mother , snould keep iiueuzol (Is Cd and -o> 6d) bandy. Health authorities recommend it ro- disinffcting the nos« and t.iroat. young children who cannot gargle should Be on their backs while aa.r;em>poonfuU of Fluenaol are poured mlr, tiach nostril.* The novelist’s small boy had_Just. been brought to 'judgment, for..filing, a fib. JLis sobs having died away, hr sat for a time in silent thought*. “Pa,”' said ho, “bow long will it bo before 1 stop gefctin’ licked for teibn’ lic-s an.’ begin to get paid for ’em like you do?-” Sergeant (bringing in a candidate) : Vou wanted a young man for the officers’ mess, sir? Officer; Yes. sergeant; has ho had any experience? -Sergeant; Yes sir. He was a plato layer before he joined up.