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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8518, 24 August 1907, Page 5

The passenger traffic on the New Zealand railways is increasing rapidly. The number of persons carried between April Ist and July 20th last was 2,750,044 —an increase of 61,231 as compared with the total for the corresponding period of last year. The annual report of the Education Department states that at the end of 1906 the secondary schools giving free tuition to duly qualified pupils, and receiving grants therefor under section 87 of the Education Act, numbered twenty-three, as against twenty-one for the previous year. The total number of pupils on tha roll of these schools was 3,261, and of this total 2,435, (1,324 boys and 1,111 girls), or 76 per cent, of the roll-number, were given free places under the regulations for fi;ge places at a mean average cost to the Treasury of £8 17s 4d per pupil; the approximate annual rates as determined on the payments for the last term of the year bem* £21,240. In 1905 the number of such free pupils was 1906, and the approximate annual rate £16;414, with a mean capitation of £8 14s 4d per pupil. '"For years past," says M:'s Catherine Weeks, Bowral, N.S.W." "I have made it a point to always keep Chamberlain's Cough llemedy in my homo. Jast as soon as any member of my family show symptoms of a cough o>' cold, 1 give them a dose and it invaii-ibly checks the com plaint." For sale by all dealers. The Only Cure. To C u e a Cold When yon have no congh ; To Cure a Cough When you have no cold; To cure Yourself When you have both ; TckeDr. t-hnklon's New Discovery Fer Cough*, CcWs, And Cor,sump ion. Tnk ! no su' s itute. Obtainable at H. E. Eton, C'hem'st, teiton.