LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume 4185, Issue 4185, 20 November 1934, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The dance, arranged by the Cocoanut Grove Band, hold !in the Altheneium Hall on Eiidiay evening, was- largely attended, and proved most enjoyabiC. The dance music supplied by the Band was first-class., and left nothing to -be- desired. A fair number of district residents! took -advantage of the one-day excursion to Bluff -on -Sunday last. A -good portion of the- plant for the Upper Arrow -Go's hydraulic claim, near Macetown, was delivered last week and the- work of putting it into position is now in progress. . After dinner they adjourned to the smoke-room, where the host produced a ■decanter of Scotch, a-syphon,a silver box of cigarettes, and a tin of tobacco. Idly picking up the tin the guest read; “Toasted, M he queried. “Improves the flavour, what?" “Ay,” replied the host, “and eliminates the nicotine, or most- of it. Don’t know another tobacco that's do good—or -so ©afe. Try it ? The guest lit up, and sinking back into the depths o-f his luxurious cihiair lazily watched the smoke-rings. “By Jove! he said, at last, sitting up, “it is good! —American ?”’ “Easy to see you’re a new chum,'’ laughed the host, “no, my boy, not American: lifts grown and manufactured in New Zealand. What d’ye think of that ? Brands>'T Ihere 1 here are- five: Ont Plug 1 Ojj^lulls-head,), Navy Cut No. 3 Cavendish. Riverhead Gold ami Desert Gold.” “I'd not the'faintest idea New Zealand produced such tobacco,declared the guest with- enthusiasm. “We live and learn,” replied the host as ho passed the decanter.