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Taranaki Daily News, 17 May 1919, Page 9

During the four years of war the number of marriages in Great Britain wan nearly 200,000 more than the total of the four years before the war. The majority of the brides married soldiers and sailors, and remained under the pnrental roof while their husbands were serving their country. Most of the brides Want- to set lip housekeeping on their own a«connt when their husbands return to civil life, but they will be unable to do so, because the price of furniture is prohibitive. In no direction has the increase in prices been more marked than in furniture (writes the London correspondent of Melbourne Age). This is due to the fact that it was impossible to get wood and labor, while on the oilier hand the prosperity of the munition workers and other wari workers soon depleted the existing stocks of furniture in the shops and warehouses. There is now a famine in furniture, with the result that prices are 200 to 300 per cent higher than they were before the war. Some indication of the state of the furniture market can be gathered from the faet that the largest firm of furniture dealers in London has been advertising for months past its anxiety to buy second-hand furniture of good quality. If a householder has a dining-room suite, a bedstead, or a table that he is willing to sell, this firm will send a man to value the articles and will offer a good price—in most eases more than the original price of the article when it was new. For Bronchial Cough, take'! Woods' Great Pejferraint Cure.