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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9043, 19 March 1908, Page 5

Speaking at the laying of the foundation stone of the new building at the Women's Hospital, Melbourne, recently, Mr Bent, the Victorian Premier, said the municipalities comprised the meanest men on the face of the earth. He had been mak l ing inquiries about the amount of money they contributed to hospitals, but he could not find a coin in the British currency small enough to represent the proportion of their subscriptions. Then he discovered that an anna —an Indian coin of very little value —represented the rate they paid to the hospitals. He thought the time had arrived when the Government should, call upon such bodies to donate more than they did to Hospitals and other charitable institutions. It was a fact, too, that some people, year after year, subscribed to charitable institutions, while others—rich men and women amongst them, too —never gave a "stiver." WHEN YOU ARK KEPT AWAKE At night with that tnublosoine Cough remember that it can be speedily cured by Dr Sheldon's Now Discovery. Price and 3b per bottle. Obtainable at H. E. Eton, Ohomitit. Many school children suffer from constipation, which is often the cause of seeming stupidity at lessons. Chamberlain's Tablets are an ideal medicine to give a child, for they are mild and-gentle in their effect, and will cure even chronic constipation. For sale by all dealers.