THE AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4281, 22 September 1936, Page 5

THE AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL.

REVIEW OF THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE.

The delightful cover design _by L. Gladstone McPherson on this month’s ‘Australasian Journal’ matches perfectly the smart and cheerful yarns Inside. From cover to cover there is not a dreary, gruesome or morbid story. Contributors for September include such well-known Austral an and

New Zealand writers as Rex Grayson. Charlotte Westfield. H. McNeish. Lou’s Kaye. ‘Myra Moiris, Captain F, Rhodes, Margaret Fane pnd Hilary Coding, Beryl Gray, "La-lye Jane" and O'thers.

In addition to fiction there are laves of features, including fashions, radio notes, cookery hints and recipes. knitting and needlework designs, dressmaking note s. pa agraphs, and a section for the children. The issue is splendidly illustrated in colour, contains no less than LV2 pages, and costs only s'xpencc at all newsagents.

Is wood carving becoming a lost art among the Maoris'? Formerly you could , buy many things of genuine Maori workmanship, including pipes, the howls often taking the form of .Maori heads elaborately carved, with lattooings and pawa-she'.l eyes. Now genuine examples are scarce. Tiro Maoris laugh at the imitations! But if there are fewer bona-fide Maorimade pipes there’s plenty of good N.Z. tobacco!—than which there is nothing finer produced in any part of the world, for not only is it manufactured from the choicest New Z#«iltndgrown leaf, but bigng I consequently almost nicotine) it’s as pure as to 1 , acco can possibly be, and safe for even the heavy smoker. Its immense popularly has resulted (as per usual!) in several wretched imitations getting about, but they are easily avoided if you ask for tand see you ge. !) any of the five original, aml only f e u n>, tea t r, d bra d —Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullahead), Cavendish, Riverlvea i Gold, an 1 Desert Gold. These beautiful tobaccos have made a reputafon that extends far and wide.