Page 4 Advertisements Column 6

Taihape Daily Times, 5 December 1917, Page 4

Foodstuffs have become so scarce in Belgium that it is quite common to read pages of “small ads” in the local newspapers offering various commodities for the equivalent of a few good meals. One such announcement runs: “In returns for quantity of riee I will give a magnificent piece of cloth, suitable for a man’s suit.’* Doubtless this proved a good “draw,” for the scarcity of wool is almost as marked as that of food. In another column of the same paper is an announcement offering to wool* len stockings over into now oites. Real old matured Malt Vinegar!—♦' Iliat’s Lotus brand. I