LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4347, 11 January 1938, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The adjourned annual meeting: of of the Wakatipu Collie Club will be held in the Council on Saturday evening l next at 8 o’clock. As the business in important, a full attendance is requested. . There was a wash-up at Hamilton’s hydraulic claim, Arrow River, on Friday last, when, we understand, another satisfactory return was obtained.

For the three days ending on Sunday morning last over three inches of rain was recorded in Awowtown. Although interfering with shearing operations, the rain was welcome to farmers and miners.

Replying to the toast of Parliament,” at the Longbush School jubilee banquet, Mr J. Hergest, M.P. for Awarua, said that the safeguarding 6f the parliamentary institution was a duty of every citizen to-day. It was a striking fact that in more than half of the world people who were free a few years ago could no longer express their own opinions, or enjoy any of the rights they should have. Absolute liberty of the subject should be jealously guarded in the Empire. There was a danger in taking the present liberty for granted. The privilege should be carefully preserved. Smoking was a perfect craze with the great ladies of two hundred years ago. There-were no cigarettes in those days so they smoked pipes. Pictures of the period are full of interest. One is of a girl walking along a gardennath followed by a maid bearing a tobacco-pipe. Another depicts a lady of quality smoking her pipe in her hath. A third shows a pretty girl, her trim waist encircled by the arm of her lover. He is evidently devoted but she has eyes only for her pipe at which she is fondly gazing. How these fine ladies and their cavaliers would have revelled in “toasted” with its exquisite purity and delightful aroma 1 Toasting it is that rids this incomparable tobacco of its nicotine. But that is only one of its charms. The five brands of the genuine toasted, Cut Plug No. 10 (Bulkhead), Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold owe their wide popularity to sterling 'merit. There is no tobacco to compare with them. They are uniquel