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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 24 July 1917, Page 5

This is the last week of Collinson and Gifford's Great "Winter Clearing Sale, and it has been heralded by remarkable special offers, choice goods in the showroom being ticketed at about half-price. The coming season's shipments may arrive any day, and it is necessary to make all possible room for them. In their notices Mesrs. Collinson and Gifford make it clear that new, fashionable goods such as they arc offering cannot be bought in the ordinary way at anything like the price they are now offered at, and they strongly recommend ladies not to miss this last opportunity of buying while such liberal conditions continue. Ladies are asked to realise that this is the last week for unprecedented bargains.

In bygone years Wellington used to be termed by Aucklanders the City of Earthquakes, and the retort courteous was that this place was the City of Fires. In fact, when one prisoner was let off who had been charged with arson a Wellington paper caustically had a line that it was quite reasonable an Auckland jury should be sympathetic in the matter of fire-raising. Now there appears to be a danger of Auckland being named "watery" instead of fiery. It i s related that a gentleman from Wellington who arrived in Auckland on a very wet day recently asked a man: "Has it been raining long here?'' The reply was very pointed: "I have only been here a year! "

According to a correspondent ol the London Meat Trades Journal, the

American Meat Trust is not the only sinner in the trade. He is a small butcher, and reports that he received stocks from a depot distributing colonial mutton and lamb. Some time back the butchers had to take a certain number of Scotch sheep or tegs to get N.Z. lamb. Now (he says) you must take' some pigs, or you do not get any mutton or lamb. He has, therefore, begun to purchase from the Yankee firms. He supposes the firms in question consider themselves very Patriotic and good Englishmen, but he -has his doubts. In a postscrpit to his letter he adds that he knew of a case where a butcher was compelled to take a case of apples to get some lamb. What is NAZOL.? Tnousanchs answer "The best Cough and Cold Remedy in the Dominion." No cold is NA-ZOL-proof. Sixty doses 1/6. Refuse substitutes.