BE FIRM.

Otaki Mail, 24 March 1922, Page 4

BE FIRM.

When Ti.il osk for-a bottle of Chamberlain ’? Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy, j do not allow the dealer to sell you a j substitute. Be firm in your conviction j that there is nothing so good. This medicine has been tested in the most, severe and dangerous cases of cramps, colic, and diarrhoea; and ha 3 never been kncrwn to laiL _ _

In these days of high cost of wages and materials, it is seldom that buildings are completed within estimated i cost, but an instance of this was reported at the meeting of the Wanga- J nui Hospital Board. The architect (Mr T. H. James) reported that the additions to the Taihape Hospital had been completed. The estimate for the work was £3OBO, but the actual cost was £2640, or £4OO less than the estimate. The architect explain-o-i that even while most of the ma- | terial was bought on a high market, j by judicious buying and the employment. of day labour, wherever possible, the .expenditure had been kept down. . i Bales and taxes in the Old Country are exorbitant, so Mr G. H. Ollard, ol Cambridge, informs a Waikato Independent representative. Land and house property is fairly cheap, compared with New Zealand prices, but there is no comparison in the rates charged in the two countries. Mr Ollard quoted a few instances that had come under his own notice. In a town of some 50,000 inhabitants, a fiveroomed dwelling on a small section had been purchased for £SOO, 'hut- the taxes on the property amounted to £54 per annum. Another property was rented for £35 per annum, but the rates came to considerably over £1 pei- week. Mr Ollard lias returned to Cambridge Well satisfied that there is no better country in the world than little New Zealand, despite the depression at present being