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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 314, 2 July 1912, Page 5

Disastrous results of removing the rock salt and brine at Cheshire were described by' Mr. Honoratus Lloy'd, K.C., in advocating a Bill to regulate the industry before a House of Lords Committee last month. Acres of land had gone down, he sr.id. What was solid laud once was now huge lakes, 8.0 ft., 90ft. of 100 ft. deep. There were enormous holes with sheer sides, on the brink of which it was hardly possible to stand. Roads had disappeared; they could be seen disappearing at one end of the artificial lakes and .rising from the other. Houses and churches had gone down. In Norwich it had become neflpssary to build houses m frames. Roads had had to be made on timber platforms. Public buildings which had been presented by brine-pumpers in their philanthropic moments had disappeared. A public library presented by,. Sir John Brunner went to pieces; ho'replaced it by another, which now required hundreds of pounds to put it in proper order. In another case, where public baths had been erected and brine provided for nothing, the result had been that while giving the brine they had pumped the .baths away, and the loenl authority was left with a huge debt. LAXO-TOXIC PILLS. The combined Laxative and Tonic Pills leave no unpleasant after effects. Sold nt lOVad and Is Cd. Obtainable everywhere.