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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 25, 31 January 1928, Page 15

SMOKING IN TRAM CARS.

From time to time there have been complaints from lady passengers about smoking in tram cars, but the other day we observed a nose tilted with keen pleasure as some blue smoke was wafted by on the breeze.

The phenomenon was so unusual that on inquiries being set afoot it was discovered that the gentleman outside was enjoying a cool, satisfying smoke of Bears' Smoking Tobacco Mild, and incidentally its fragrance was giving pleasure to his fellow passengers.

Bears is sold at all tobacconists at Sd per ounce, loose, and in handy packets, loz 9d, 2oz 1/6. —(A<L)

The pumpkin, or pompion, was regarded by early New Englanders as one of their greatest blessings, and its meat was used to make beer, bread custards,

sauce, molasses, and vinegar, as well as pies.

One man in 2600 reaches the age of one hundred in Serbia, one in Sl3O in Ireland, one in 43,000 in Spain, one in 177,000 in England. Scotland, and Wales, and one in 180.750 in France.