AUTOMATIC MATCHES.

Mataura Ensign, 25 January 1911, Page 6

AUTOMATIC MATCHES.

Tiie all-conquering automatic cigar-ette-lighter, which the Krencli Government proposes to tax very heavily in order to combat its competition with the State match monopoly, figured prominently in the Chamber of Deputies the other afternoon. When M. Charles Dumoiit proposed that the tax should be adopted forthwith some jocular member produced his automatic lighter and demonstrated its working. His example was quickly followed by other legislators, and soon the prohibited apparatus was to be seen flaming up on every hand. At Nantua (Ain) a woman named Louise Maire, of Lyons, has been sentenced to three days' imprisonment and fined £2O for smuggling into France 43 of these lighters.