News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43344, 30 June 1908, Page 1

News Items

Middlesex has defeated Notts in the English county cricket competition. Tarrant made a score of 103 for the winners.

In the United States, where the Federal Government carries out irrigation schemes, no one is allowed to hol4 more than 160 acres of irrigated land, this | being considered the maximum one man can put into good use.

r Statistics show that New g York is the greatest telephone | city in the world, with more f instruments than .London, and emphasising the pre-eminence - of the United States in the g telephone field. In the Re-gf public, j altogether, there are | about 5,068,800 telephones out g of a grand total of 7,398,300 in g; the world, while in New York | City there are 200,170 insfcru** ments, and in all of Canada J there are only 130,000. The | entire continent of Europe, y with its great pities and enormous business, employs .§ only' about 2,000,000 tele- f phones. ; -

A3cordiug to the Minister for Lands, there will be no attempt g made this session to. deal by legislation with the question of/?child labor on dairy farms. “We hope, however,” Mr McNab informed a reporter, “to be able to control the J employment of child labour through our inspectors. They will constantly visit the farms. J and dairies, and will not be a | 3mall body of informers, making unexpected visits, and not g knowing the conditions of. the , industry. The inquiries will be made by men who have a maximum amount of knowledge of the whole question.”

Have you never noticed how dark and dirty looking the linoleum has become ? Did it never strike you, when using the polishing paste, that you 1 are rubbing in the dirt and polishing on top ? Tan-ol which is a cream put up iut|f bottles, cleans the linoleum | first and polishes afterwards .f Just try it and you will' soon | notice its superiority to pastes

Sold in bottles everywhere.— Advt. *....

During a discussion in the House of Lords on the Butter and Margarine Bill some time ago, . Lord Onslow told ,an amusing story about a certain waiter who was called as : ia

witness before a committee. i which sat to discuss . the «uhject. It was in the early days of that particular product, and the committee was not quite certain how to pronounce its name. A stolid»looking waiter was sent for to settle the question, and when he appeared \js the' chairman showed him a | sample. "Do you call thisff £ margarine ’or ‘ marjorihe V. ” | he asked. “ Neither, sir,” replied the waiter blandly; “we | calls it butter.”

It costs less money, it needs less labour, it gives most satisfaction to use Tan-ol for cleaning and polishing linoleum and furniture than any other preparation. This statement has been verified in thousands of homes.where it is in constant use. If you have any doubt about it try it yourself. If ■ you want the best results then get the best article, which is the cheapest, viz., Tan 01. It is sold in bottles everywhere. —Advt.

For Ladies, Neckwear, Belts Laces, and Ribbons, a large variety at less than Auckland prices. Try Gtahagan’s Economic.