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Dunstan Times, Issue 3138, 9 October 1922, Page 8

Spots on the sun are now asserted in lie responsible for aggravating, co r- • * tain diseases. such ns asthma. This do- ■ duration was made a few weeks ago hy several members of the French Academy of Medicine, who vouched for its ; accuracy. * We may have pipes manufactured 1 from the roots of Scottish heather. Sir Marry Lauder, who visited the Tobacco Trade Exhibition in London, asked if 1 he manufacturers had ever thought of making pijies from the root of the Sootiish heather. One (inn. he was told, is in communication with the Ministry of Agriculture to discover if pipes can • he made from the Scottish heather mot or any wood procurable in Britain or the colonies. If the experiment® now proceeding arc successful, it is estimated that work could fie found for 10.000 people in England. Conversion into Hats which would accommodate .’kOOO persons is the suggested late of the former United 1 States . transport Leviathan, now lying at J Hoboken pier, New York.