Overheard on the Auckland waterfront. Time: dinner-hour. Lumper to his mate. “At last I felt that bad I seen a doctor. ‘Where’s yer pipe?’ ’e sez, so I pulls out the old briar. ‘Faugh!’ ’e sez, ‘burn it, —and change yer ’bacca! You been smoking ’bacca fulla nicoteen’, ’e sez, ‘and it’s fair poisoning yer. Never smoke imported ’bacca while you can get toasted Noo Zealand,’ _’e sez, ‘the toasting takes the nicotine clean out of it, and makes it safe to smoke. Fine smoking it is, too! Now, you do as I tell you!’ Well, I did. I got some Noo Zealand Cut Plug No. 10, and, believe me, it’s the goods! And as soon as I changed my bacca I got as right as rain!” Excess of nicotine in tobacco often affects the health of smokers, for very often contains an excess of the poison. There’s none, or next to none, in New Zealand toasted. Only four brands —Riverhead Gold, Cavendish, Navy Cut No. 3 and Cut Plug No. 10. (195)
A TIP FOR GOLFERS. Try the “Spalding” and “Kroflite” Balls with the new Spalding Multidot Marking. Multidot Marking helps your game by making the ball easier to hit, easier to identify, easier to find in the rough. Obtainable from all sports dealers —prices as usual. (4)
Keep your hair smartly groomed. Prevent dry scalp. Brice’s Circassian Cream, 2/- pot. Blyth Harper, Chemist. (20) Take advantage of cheap eggs. Don’t delay. Preserve them the reliable way in Sharland’s Egg Preservative. The back seat in the tram is always risky for colds and chills unless you use “NAZOL,” the sure remedy. (10) Hair Falling? Be careful. Use Brice’s Regenerator, 5/6, and Circassian Cream, 2/-. Blyth Harper, Chemist. (13)
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 3369, 24 September 1931, Page 7
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