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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12092, 3 November 1933, Page 3

“Snuff?” said an Auckland tobacconist, in reply to a question, “0b yes, wo sell it—about three-quarters of a pound a year. I suppose, lu iiiv ’prentice days, (my boss had a big tobacco business in London), wo used to sell it by ilic barrel. It s good for tho eyesight, they say. Dirty habit, sunffiiug, though no worse than chewing. Chewing gone west, too, bar amongst sailors. Mill smoking ever go out? Never in the creation of cats! Tim consumption of tobacco increases by leaps and bounds every year! Why it costs millions of money to keep the world s pipe alight! What- do I smoke myself?. Why the New Zealand toasted. There’s uo tobacco like it—take my tip! No nicotine in it to speak of. The. toasting gets the poison out. How many brands are there? Why four— Riverhrad Gold. Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish and .Cut Ring No. 10 (Bullshead). Some fc-iks tell you tobacco’s harmful. There's no harm in New Zealand toasted. 1 ought to know. I've been smoking it for a dozen years and more ’” —333

In a part of his annua! report- dealing with tho causation of mental disorder, Dr Then. G. Gray, lMrect-or-Gcneral of .Mental Hospitals, said: “One would bo tempted to expect that the distress arising from the prevailing economic difficulties would be reflected 1 in an increase -n our admissions. Actually the total admissions, including voluntary boarders, are ten loss than in the previous year, and one can only surmise that- the. spirit of altruism, (which is always at its height at periods of national danger and anxiety, is working as it did during the war years., Tho great occasion is one of real stresses- which leave no room 'for petty vanities and morbid imaginings and introspections; there is At call to action, an exaltation of the .-community spirit and self-discipline -which tends to sanity.”