WOMAN’S CIGARETTES

Hawera Star, Volume L, 29 July 1930, Page 9

WOMAN’S CIGARETTES

RULED TO BE A LUXURY. Is smoking a. luxury or a necessity for modern women . J Judge Bee\ e, j K C., at the Worcester County Court recently ruled that it is a luxury. He decided that a wife may not pledge her lHisbandi’ts credit for cigarettes. Charles Downes, a grocer, sued Mi J. Phillips, for cigarettes supplied to Phillips. Mr Downs explained that usually the cigarettes which Mrs Phillips ordered were put on the orooery bill, but last October she asked him to put her cigarettes on a separate bill as a check on the amount she was S ")h ‘Phillips declared that Ids* wife’s object was to keep him in ignorance ot her smoking hab it , be cans-© he much against it. “I refused to pay hei cigarette bill because she contracted tne debt and I think Downes supplied the icigarettes at his own risk,” he said. A. Tile judge agreed, saying that when * / js£rs Phillips asked for the cigarettes to be put on a separate bill, Donnes should) have “smelt a rat.” “I am by no means sure that cigarettes for a woman are as yet necessities, and, therefore the ordinary implied authority given by a husband to his wife does not apply here,”, added the judge. Judgment was entered for the husband.