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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 305, 19 September 1921, Page 5

Tho lure of the cigarette is still strong with the patients in the military hospitals, in spite of tho efforts of the medical authorities in the Defend© Department io stop or at least curtail tho habit in the interests of the men’s health. Tho Auckland committee cf th© Rod Cross and Order of St. John has ceased to supply cigarettes to ex-soldier patients in hospital on the advice of the authorities, but apparently tho men still manage to got them. As a substitute t*he committee has been supplying the men with pipe tobacco, but in a letter ftom tho Rotorua branch, received et last meeting of tho committee, it was stated that, tho men in tho hospital there were simply exchanging their pipe tobacco for cigarettes. Tho medical staff at th© hospital apparently placed no restriction on cigarettes. Mrs. Smith said that she had received a request from a medical officer for cigarettes for patients in Auckland. She understood that the men were making cigarettes out of pipo tobacco, which, she believed, wns worse for them tlian. smoking ready-made cigarettes. Tho chairman, Mr. J. H. Gunson, said that the committee should not supply cigarettes until General Sir Donald M’Gavin said it could do so. — “New Zealand Herald.” The various currents in the North Sea are new being tracked by means of seal, ed bottles.