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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 13126, 24 March 1937, Page 8

Wlien a suburban train left Auckland the other morning it chanced that there were only two passengers in the smoking compartment, a vine-gary-faced: middle-aged woman and a man'smoKing his pipe. “Hope you don’t object to smoking, madame?” politely inquired the man. “Yes, I do!” snapped vinegar-lace. “No gentleman would smoko in the presence of a ‘lady.’ I < shall complain' to the guard came along the “lydy” complained bitterly. The .guard sized her up. “It’s a smoking carriago” he said, “You’d betbter shift.” Furiously angry she went, threatening to “report” the guard for insolence. When she’d gone that functionary remarks: “Takes all sorts to make .a world—and some of ’em never would be missed! Say that baccy you’re smoking smells good ; what is it?” “Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), and it is good, so are the other toasted brands, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog),' Cavendish, Fiver head Gold, and Desert Gold. No ono can reasonably object to any of ’em.” “That’s right, I reckon,” said the guard, “where d’ye buy ’em?” “Oh, at any tobacconist’s.”