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Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1922, Page 4

There’s a story going round of a speculator who bought from the Disposal Board the 300,000 Bibles remaining after the war, and earned quite a fortune out of the deal, says the Sunday Pictorial. They cost him about Id each. He advertised the Bibles as a book which every married couple ought to possess, and every person intending to marry should read, and sold the lot at 2s 6d each. His receipts are calculated at £36,250.

A Wellington visitor to Auckland says that there never Avas a period in the history of the Empire City when so many families are “taking in a boarder” to help augment the family income while the dull times continue. He instanced the case of a xyell-known Boy’s Institute that in previous seasons always had. a long waiting list of young fellows wanting to get in, but all through the winter there have not been less than six vacancies each week, and sometimes there have been more. The family boarder Avho was Avilling to share a room with one of the family often saved 5/- to 10/per Aveek, and this was now so often availed of that many boardinghouses were quite slack, and there was a tendency to cut prices more than there had been for a long time past. Many families who were having 21 hard struggle to live were looking anxiously for prices to come down, for it meant much to them. Ladies should be careful always that any preparation used on the skin is made only of the finest and purest materials. Any irritating substance may cause trouble on the skin that will be Jient i<s absolutely reliable. It will sothe and heal the most tender skin.— V/ bottle, Friendly Societies’ Diapen-