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Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4418, 13 November 1934, Page 1

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 tobabco. Idly picking up the tin the guest read: “Toasted Navy Cut, No. 3.” “Why toasted?’ he queried. “Improves the llavour, what?” Ay, replied the host, and eliminates the nicotine, or most of it. Don’t know another tobacco that is so good —or so safe. Try it? The guest lit up, and sinking back into the depths of his luxurious chair 1 , 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: it’s grown and manufactured in New Zealand. What d’ye think of that? Brands? There are five: Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Navy Cut. No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Biverhead Gold and 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 he passed the decanter. 452 In ’buses, trams, in streets, in shops, The flu’ germs are around, In any place where there’s a crowd They surely will be found, So guard against the germs of ’flu Be from them quite secure, And for a certain remedy Use Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. —20. It is officially announced that 111 sexual offenders have been emasculated in Germany since the law came into force in November, 1933.