London By-election Favours Government
Received Sunday, 7.30 p.m. LONDON, May 10. The Putney by-election resulted Linsteed (Government) 8788, Ackworth (Independent) 2939. Twenty-three per cent, of the electorate voted. The by-election was the result of the death of Mr. Marcus Samual. The Sunday Times, in a leader, says: “The whole question of the choice of candidates needs to be reconsidered. The prime object ought to be to secure men whose opinions and personality will bring new quality into the Commons.” Mr. Linsteed is secretary of the Pharmaceutical Association. They were yarning about tobacco in the smoke-room of an Auckland Club the other night. A well-known doctor startled everybody by declaring that sopie brands were about as dangerous as dynamite, and mentioned the case of a man who had consulted him some time before for bad throat trouble. “I asked him,” said the d-octor, “what brand of tobacco he used. He told mo, adding that he’d smoked it for months. ’ ’ “Knock it off,” I warned him, “I know that brand.” “What brand -would you recommend, doctor?” he asked. “Why the genuine 1 toasted 1 ,” I said, “it’s not only the finest tobacco I know of, but the purest.” He’s all right again now and swears by ‘toasted.’ There’s nothing like it.” There isn’t. But there are only five brands of the real thing, remember— Pocket Edition, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold. The two last are the cigarette tobaccos so popular with the roll-your-own brigade. But don’t get “stung” when you buyl. Imitations are no good, _
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Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 109, 11 May 1942, Page 5
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