All day long the display causes a little gathering to remain gazing upon it, commenting on its astonishing variety and the children’s realisation that everything has a use of some sort.
In the centre are a number of very small bottles, surrounding a mysterious one that holds exactly three drops, and is fitted with a cork nearly as big as the bottle.
The accommodation at Sidey’s buildings has already proved too small, some 60,000 bottles being sorted and stacked there, and Messrs Stronach, Morris, and Co. have come to the rescue and given space across the street, so that the good work may continue unhampered.
The problem of the medicine bottles has been solved by Messrs Kempthorne, Prosser, and Co., who have undertaken to sort them out and prepare them for sale.
No fewer than five members of the staff were engaged on the work yesterday. How the campaign will close has not been definitely settled.
• Our Wellington correspondent informs us that the regulations under the War Regulations Act of last session will be gazetted to-day.
These will deal with the prohibition of the practice of shouting or treating, the suppression of sly grog-selling and prostitution, and the treatment of persons suffering from venereal disease.
Another regulation which will probably appear today will be one under the Military Service Act.
It will empower the Government to exhibit advertising posters connected with recruiting in any place that may be suitable in shop windows, for example, with or without the consent of the owner — and it will also empower the Government to insist upon the exhibition of advertising matter of this kind in picture shows without charge.
• The Primate has handed to us for publication the following reply from the Hon.
The Minister of Internal Affairs to the request of the Synod of the diocese of Dunedin that the number of racing days in New Zealand should be further reduced during the continuance of the war: — "With further reference to your letter of June 27 last, and the Right Hon, the Prime Minister’s reply thereto of July 7, referring to the opinion of the Synod of the diocese that legislation should be introduced to reduce further the number of racing days in New Zealand during the war, I have the honour to inform you that this has been considered by Cabinet, which has resolved that no action shall be taken in the direction proposed by your Synod." — ODT, 22.8.1916.
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