WEATHER FORECAST

Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1935, Page 6

WEATHER FORECAST

General inference: An intense anticyclone now lies centrally over the South' Island. A cvplone is located to the northwest of New Zealand. The foreast is for moderate to fresh south-east winds. Weather fine with cold nights, and sharp inland frosts. Seas smooth and moderate.

Smoking jackets for ladies’ wear are now being featured in some of the London fashion journals—a sure indication of the popularity of smoking amongst women. What would her late Majesty Queen Victoria, who hated tobacco so intensely that her guests when they craved a whiff were obliged to indulge in- their bedrooms with their heads up the chimney, have thought about smoking for women? But other times, other manners, and the change over in taste on the part of ladies has certainly benefited the tobacco trade and is largely responsible for the enormously increased consumption of cigarettes, not only overseas but here in New Zealand where the demand for the two leading cigarette tobaccos toasted Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold—is at least four times as great as formerly. Pipe smokers, too, show a marked preference for “toasted,” i.e. Cavendish, Navy Cut No 3 (Bulldog), and Cut Plug' No 10 (Bullshead). These tobaccos are not only famed for their exquisite flavour and delightful fragrance, but for the comparative freedom from nicotine —eliminated ! by toasting.— Advt,