Rose Day

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 230, 28 September 1944, Page 6

Rose Day

(To the Editor.) Sir, —I wish through your columns, to call the attention of the people of Feilding and the surrounding district to the institution of Rose Day in this area. Larger centres have observed Rose Day lor several years, and it is to be made an annual observance throughout New Zealand, for the purpose of allowing the public an opportunity of making donations, small or large, to the general work of the Returned Services’ Association. With the steady increase in the work of the R.S.A. and the general expansion of its activities, it has become necessary for the branches to have more funds and it is in this light that the Feilding R.S.A. launches its iirst Rose Day on Friday, September 20, before the public of the town and district. The executive committee of the R.S.A. feels that the establishment of Rose Day will be appropriately recog nis.ed by the business men and the public of Feilding and that they will accord it their ready and generous support. —1 am, etc., F. J. ALLEN, President, Feilding R.S.A. The Mayor (Mr. T. L. Seddon), the town clerk (Mr. C. H. Tate) and the secretary of the Patriotic Society (Mr.' K. M. Little) were on the Feilding station at 5 o’clock yesterday morning to welcome home a number of servicemen. There was a good gathering of parents and relatives as well. Additional unaddressed parcels towards the Feilding and district quota for the October quarter’s despatch are acknowledged as follow; Colyton Patriotic Committee 25, Sanson Patriotic Committee 30, Cheltenham W.I. 11, Halcombe Patriotic Committee 16, lialcombe W.I. 6, lialcoinbo W.D.F.U. 4, Stanway W.I. 20, Cion Oroua Farewell Committee 24, Feilding Red Cross Comforts branch 2 gift coupons.

“It makes me tired when people who ought to know better class tobacco as a mere luxury—something that can easily be done without,” remarked a Wellington tobacconist to a customer the other day. “As a member of the trade for forty years, I know that the weed is almost as necessary to very many smokers as the food they eat, and that enforced abstinence from its soothing, calming influence is to them a very real hardship, especially when times are bad. Particularly is this the case in New Zealand, where wo are producing tobacco of the very finest quality. To what brands do I Tofen Why, to all six brands so popular with smokers—Riverhead Gold, Desert Gold, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Pocket Edition, Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullsliead) and Cavendish. I need hardly tell you that their purity is largely owing to the fact that they are toasted and are thus rendered as harmless to smokers as they are fragrant and delicious. Such tobacco may well be considered a ‘necessary commodity.’ It is certainly some thing more than a. luxury.”-