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Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1921, Page 4

By way of strengthening the protection of this country against bubonic r plague, the Board of Health on Tuesday decreed that , the Dunedin City Council should at once erect a, destructor for the purpose of incinerating garbage. Similarly, it decided that the Auckland City Council must make additions to its present destructor, and also build a new destructor in the eastern part of the city. The cost of the Auckland extension is estimated at £6OOO, and of the new Auckland destructor at £15,000. Neither the Dunedin City Council nor the Auckland City Council is objecting to the order. The board has exercised its power of compulsion because when it does so there is no need for a poll of the ratepayers to authorise the local bodies to proceed with the work. A poll of course would involvee considerable delay. “How much money has your husband in the Savings Bank?” asked counsel of a plaintiff in the Arbitation Court at Auckland, who was claiming compensation for the loss of her son. “My husband does not tell me his business,” said plaintiff, “and never shows me his bank-book. All I know is what he tells me—that he earns £5 a week, and he gives me £4 15s. But perhaps he’s like the rest of the men —they never tell their wives straight out what they earn. I know one man who tells his wife he only gets half of what he does.” (Laughter.) Plaintiff, who was smartly dressed, astonished the Court somewhat by declaring that she had not been able to buy any clothes for three years, and that a pair of shoes lasted .her for twelve months.

A leading dairy authority in Hamilton stated this week that the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company had for some weeks been advising factories with dual plants to switch over to cheese, for which commodity there were at present better prospects than for butter. Some of the factories had already commenced to make cheese. Further advice was, he said, eagerly awaited from London as to the position of the markets.

Visitors to town are invited to inspect the wonderful display of ladies’ Irish hand embroidered voile blouses showing at the Melbourne, Ltd. These blouses come direct from a leading Belfast maker, and comprise all the latest shapes, including jumper and Magyar styles. The voile employed is beautifully fine, and the embroidery work perfectly lovely. Prices, 15/6 to 39/6.

“Fairy Wonder” washing powder cuts wash-day in half. Tired housewives should no longer slave and boil oyer the wash-tub while this latest scientific household help is available for a few pence. When a large weekly wash looms up, don’t worry. Let “Fairy” do it. Sold in packets at all grocers.

Your, soiled or taded suits, costumes, and dresses can be successfully drycleaned < r dyed and made equal to new at the cost of a few shillings, by J. K. Hawkins and Co., dyers and dry cleaners, Dev. i Street, New Plymouth. We also renovate felt hate, Panama hats, furs. etc. Now, it does not matter where you live; just pot* your goods to us, and ■Shay will be returned in a few day*