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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1927.

NOTICE

NOTICE is hereby given that for FOUR

days during OHINESE NEW THAR HOLIDAY (from Feb. to Feb. 5

inclusive) this COMPANY will be closed

to business. Patrons are requested to

send in their February orders before the

end of January.

THE WING ON CO, LTD.

January 28th, 1927:

Unless----

you have visited our Dennison Department you cannot realise the wonderful variety of beautiful and useful articles that you can. quickly learn to make of paper rope, crepe paper and scaling wux. at an almost unbelieveably low cost för materials.

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You are invited

to attend the classes in Dennison arts given every day in

our store.

Free instructions are given in—.

Rope Weaving

Costume Making

Sealing Wax Art

Children too-

Flower Making.

Novelties.

Décorations

and Favours

are invited to attend the classes. It is grent training for the youngsters. They are given an opportunity for the expression of their creative and constructive, instincts while making many pretty and interesting things of Dennison's inexpensive materials.

DER A. WING & CO. (1923), LTD.

60, Des Voeux Road, Central,"

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.

A Massachusetts "Willow Tree" threepenny bit struck in 1652. was sold for £306. at Sotheby's.

Christmas gifts to the record amount of 1,000 guineas were made from the Eccentric Club/s Benevolent Fund.

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At Fleetwood, food inspectors condemned as unfit for food 10. 000 stone of Ash, brought in by a German Ashing steamer from the White Sea.

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The Boilermakers' Union's De cember report shows that there were 29,688 members out of work. It also discloses a bank overdraft of $227,077.

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Taxation amounting to 818- 364,319 was paid during 1928, in respect of 1.547,891 vehicles.

Canon Alexander says there are no new facts to justify the A Berlin message states that at alarmist statements recently Dausenau, near Bad Ems, a float-made as to the dangerous tondi- ing dock used in the construction tion of St. Paul's Cathedral.. of a sluice sank and six workmen were drowned.

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The Executive Committee of the National Union of Railway. Mr. J. Havelock Wilson hasmen has decided to impose a levy been busily engaged in Glasgow of 3d. per week on all members: with both employers and em- during 1927 in an effort to recoup The British steamer "Highlandployes and discussing matters retheir depleted funds. Prince," of the Rio-Cape Line.lating to trade union policy, 90 has rescued the captain and crew enabling them to fully under- of seven men of the three-masted stand the aims of the Industrial schooner Eufrosine," of Riga, Peace Union. abandoned in the Atlantic.

At Clerkenwell Police Court the summons against Professor Verney, of University College; for receiving a wolfhound mon Air Vice-Marshal C. A. H. grel was dismissed, the magis. "A sunny future for the Em-Longcroft, the air officer comtrate remarking that the prosecu pire" was the Christmas wish and manding the Inland Area, R.A.F..tion ought not to have been farewell message of the Right has been injured in a collision be-launched. The charge against Hon. S. M. Bruce. Prime Minis- tween two cars at Bdgware. Both George Phipps, a labourer, of ter of Australia on leaving cars

were badly damaged, and Albert Street, Kilburn, of aten}- Waterloo on his homeward jour-broken glass from the winding the dog, was also dismissed..

ney.

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It is now believed that 55 lives were lost when the steamer "Linseed King" capsized, states New York message. The vessel was used for transporting men from Manhatten to a factory on the New Jersey shore.

screen

and windows' cut Air Vice-Marshal Longcroft on the neck, severing a small vein, and it is expected that he will be laid up for a few days.

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The Headmasters' Conference at Brighton College engaged in an animated discussion on, the ¡relative merita of the old and of the reformed pronunciation of Latin, and a resolution advocat- ing a return to the old style was defeated. Strong criticism offered regarding the circular

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In 1926 163,579 articles were lodged in the Lost Property Office at New Scotland Yard" În "one day 696 umbrellas were handed Colonel the Right Hor, FS.in. Owing to the rapid increase sent out by the headmaster Jackson, who recently resigned of the work of the department, Eton intimating that the reform" the chairmanship of the Unionist new premises have been taken ated pronunciation was no longer party organisation, was present- 109; Lambeth Road. Sir William essential at Eton, ed, at the Unionist Central Office, Horwood, Commissioner of Po- with a parting gift from heads of lice, stated that the change would departments and ares agents of result in the improved efficiency the party.

of the police, whose most impart Fant departments would now be housed under one roof, and in a saving to the London ratepayers.

In the first three months' ad- ministration of Poor-law relief in West Ham, under the board of three appointed by the Minister of Health, striking "economies were effeated. The number of cases receiving relief was reduced by over 25 per cent., and the amount given in relief by 45 per said the Doctor, Mike many other ner-cent. The board estimate that

"NEURALGIA,"

An inquiry which is being con- ducted by a Cabinet Committee into the subject of the further eu- franchisement of women is mere- ly in the preliminary stage. There is understood to be no likelihood that a Franchise Bill will be in-vous affliction, may be guarded against troduced by the Government be the highest point of efficiency.

by maintaining blood and nerves, at. fore 1928.

the effect of their administration

in the half-year ending March 31 tonic that is not merely a temporary next will be a saving of £351,241.

A

stimulant, but one that, builder up both

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trians is being made in Parlia ment Square, where the gyratory system of traffic is in force. If the inconvenience to pedestrians, which was one of the chief dif overcome, an official of the Minis- ficulties of the system, could be try of Transport stated in an in-

A resolution was adopted by blood and nerves, is a far more rational An experiment with specially the Young Communists Leagues of acquiring immunity to neural-allotted crossing places for pedes

and of lessening Its recurrence, Conference in support of "theshan the use of analgesics or seda bourgeoisie youth movement." ves which, while.. According to the mover of the re-emporary relief, effective, afford but

Dr. Williams solution organisations such as the

Pink Pule for Pale League of Young Liberals, the People recommend themselves as Jusz Junior Imperial League, the Boysigned to build up rich blood and strong n tonic as the doctor specifies, de Scouts, the Girl Guides, and the serves. have been proven time Y.M.C.A., are

subsidised by and time again helpful in minimising philanthropists or employers "all. the recurrence of heuralgic attacks, terview, there might be an exten- carrying on a settled propagands free at $1.50 per bottle, B bottles for

For sale by your chemist, or portsion of gyratory traffic, by which against the spirit of working- $8.00, from The Dr. Williams' Medicine the number of traffic blocks was class ideas."

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