PUBLIC BEQUESTS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume L, Issue 175, 3 November 1917, Page 1

PUBLIC BEQUESTS.

SOME HANDSOME GIFT©,

(United Press Association.)

WANG-ANUI, This Day. The late Miss Elizabeth Alexander left some handsome bequests to the public institutions, of < Wangamii, chief items being £I2.XX)O for- iar iniuseum and library, £4OOO for the Wanganni O'rphanage, £2500 for the hospital, £2OOO for the Education Board for the purpose of establishing technical college scholarships, £ISOO for the Presbyterian Home Mission, £IOOO for founding scholarships at the Girls' Gollege. Other bequests include £6CO for St. Paul's Presbyterian Church - £SOO for the Public Library; £t>oo for the Old Men's Home; £SOO for St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, making a total of £24,900. .

The raw leaf used by "Great Britain and Australia for the "manufacture: of smoking tobaccos is almost entirely of American and huge sums of money go annually to the U.S.A. Why not keep that money in our own coufttry and the Empire ? ' Now that New ■'Zealand has its own tobacco industry we need no longer import foreign tobacco. Gold' Pouch ,the New Zealand grown tobacco, excells all others in mildness and flavour; it contains also far less nicotine, and is tlius .less harmful than the heavy foreign tobacco. Support local industries that .. benefit all classes of the population alike. Gold Pouch is better and purer .than the foreign article—more economical too—2jOzs as against Ifozs for Is. .Cigarette smokers should use N.Z; grown Three Diamond Tobacco which leaves no sharp and bitter aftertaste like foreign tobaccos. : '