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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 428, 6 August 1915, Page 2

"The soldier likes his cigarette. ’ said Lieutenant-Colonel George Lano Mullins, the officer commanding No. ■1 General Hospital. Randwick, to :i repre.-entativ e meeting of the Health Society of New South Males at the Svdney Town Hall last week, "and I can tell you this, whether we like smoking or m.i, it is i,ur duty to see that our wounded lieroes are, well supplied with tobacco. I was at .Randwick Hospital shortly after the arrival of tlie first batch.of wounded and found on>' or two serious cases in Leo. I asked (.me pool fellcw if there was anything vve could do for bis comf'irt. ami lie said. Acs. str; I am just dying for a cigarette.' I thereupon saw ibeir w'lnls were supplied, and bud the iegulati< n- amended to permit, in' eeitain circumstances... of the men smoking in the w ariis.’’ ((. beers).