Untitled

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 38, 3 December 1920, Page 5

There are only 200 physicians in all Serbia, and five in Montenegro. - British exports for the year ending October 31, show an increase of £33,234,000, while their imports— show a decrease of £3,611,000 for the same period. The person who drinks methylated spirits in lieu of the spirit, or spirits, usually obtained across the bar of the publichouse is not unknown in New Zealand; but if he does so after April 1 next it will be in face of the warning, "Poison." By Order-in-Council it is directed that on and after that date the Customs Act shall be ' amended as follows: — "Every vendor of completely denatured methylated spirit for sale without restriction shall, prior to the sale thereof cause each vessel containing same to have securely attached thereto a label with the following words printed thereon: 'Methylated spirit: Poison. : Not to he taken internally. If so trsken it may cause blindness or death, and it will induce general physical decay.' "