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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 71, 29 February 1916, Page 8

j MEAN’S ESSENCE COUGH ! MIXTURE SIMPLE TO MAKE, PLEASANT TO TAKE. I “I was recommended by a friend to make our own cough mixture by using Hean’s Essence, and was delighted at the result. 1 found it easy to prepare, pleasant to take, and most effective for coughs and colds. Its goodness and wonderful cneapness should recommend it to every household.”—MßS. E. C. BUTLER, Christchurch. "From childhood 1 have been very subject to bad colds and chest weakness, j When I caught a fresh cold I could always look forward to a month or six weeks of i bad cough. But now 1 find Hcan’s Essence j nips a cold in the bud, and prevents it getting on the chest. 1 say without besi--1 tation Hcan’s Essence is the only cough 1 and cold remedy that docs me good."— J. JOHNSON, New Plymouth, j “Hcan’s Essence has proved its worth I in our home for influenza, colds, sore i throat, and coughs. We praise it highly, and are grateful for the benefit Hcan’s Essence has been to us."—MRS. CLARA , KNOX, Roslyn, Dunedin. S For tickling coughs, night or day ' coughs, sore, inflamed and swollen I throats, croup, bronchitis, whooping } cough or asthma, Hean’s Essence is I immediately comforting. Try it i and see how quickly it soothes the throat, removes phlegm and heals sore lungs. One bottle of Mean's Essence makes a very big bottle of splendid cough mixture. Just follow the easy directions on each bottle. It is as simple as preparing a cup of tea, while the saving for your pocket is 10/- for each pint used. Hean’s Essence is genuine. Sold j by chemists and stores, or post-free on receipt of price, 2/-, fromG. W. Mean, Chemist, Wanganui. Be sure you get IT-E A-N-’S. n Costs More — The Third Article of ci Series dealing with a question which vitally affects every housewife. The increased demand for tea today is due to to the fact that huge quantities are wanted for the 25 million men under arms. The Heads of the Armies of the world know that there is no drink so stimulating and beneficial, and deuce Ihev must have tea lor ■heir men no mailer what it costs. Then, too, at the stroke of a pen, the great Russian Nation has been turned into a tea drinking people, and the money previously spent on Vodka is now available for the purchase of tea But there is only a limited supply of tea and that supply is not sufficient to fill the present requirements. Ifcpnce at the tea auctions in Ceylon it has risen in ‘price month by month, until to-day it costs the packer to 3d per lb. more than in August last. This, of course, affects New Zealand very greatly, for the finest tea in the world has been sold here at prices which cannot be equalled. Although this seems a bold /statement, it is one that will ( bear the closest investigation. For j instance, a great proportion of the tea imports to England consist of what is known as ‘‘red stalk” tea, the lowest possible grade—so low that it is prohibited throughout Australasia. Yet even this lowest grade is sold in England at 1/6 or more per lb,, while for fine teas of the quality of “ Amber Tips,” 2/8 to 3/4 per lb. is asked. Tea experts the world over are astonished at the remarkable quality, flavour, fragrance and value given in “Amber Tips” at so low a price, and it is because no better value can be obtained anywhere, that “Amber Tips” is today the most popular brand in New Zealand, Millions of packets of “Ambers Tips” are sold per annum. It is stocked in every shop from the North Cape to the Bln If. Only exceptional value could be responsible for so exceptional a s»>'s. But tine tea is now costing the “Amber Tips” Proprietors, as well as other tea merchants, an average of ‘2ld. to 3d. per lb. more than in August, 1014. Therefore, if a fair price was charged before the war, the tea merchant is to-day faced with an enormous loss should he continue to pack the same quality at his old prices. 1 Of come there is the alternative of cheapening the quality by an admixture of inferior, less healthful teas. 'The “Amber Tips” Proprietors were advised by many to do this, hut instead they decided to raise the price by 2d. per lb., and to continue to give the public that same splendid value which has always been associated with the name “Amber j Tips.’’ Now, Mrs. Housewife, what is your opinion of the whole matter? Would you rather have the same delightful flavour, quality, purity and value and pay a penny a j ib. packet more—or would you rather have an inferior and less healthful tea at the old price ? But you say “other teas have not been raised in prices.” Jf so you can readily see that either excessive prices were charged before the war —so excessive that even an extra 261. or 3d. in cost per lb. still enables a profit to be made —or quality must be reduced, other* a heavy loss must be faced. But oven at increased figures Author Tips is slill the cheapest tea you can buy. Cup for cup, value for value, nothing else can equal it, while it is so pure and healthful that it can be taken by even those of the weakest digestion. Surely these facts should weigh with you. Consider them carefully—write and tell us your conclusions. Wo believe that you wautquaiity and thatyon want value. For that reason we have raised our prices because only by doing so can we continue to give you the same honest quality and the same honest val - '*. 101 it Pl* Jx jny 1*4(3 fl 1/10, 2/-, 2/2 per lb. The only lea that has In increase its prices—theforejoimj trill tell you trlnj.