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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 14 April 1939, Page 4

The Social Committee of the Loyal Howard Lodge will hold its fortnightly dance in the Oddfellows’ Hall on Saturday at 8 p.m. Good prizes are offered for the Early Bird and Monte Carlo competitions. Mr H. Williams's Dance Band will supply the music and patrons are assured of an enjoyable evening. Bro. C. Reynish will carry out the duties of M.C. The ladies will hand round a dainty supper at 10.15. A well-known Maorilander just returned from a trip Home, visited Birmingham in the course of his travels and was shown at a wholesale warehouse a lot of elaborately carved tobacco-pipes of allegedly Maori origin. On enquiring the price he was asked whether he was “in the trade,” and unblushingly said “yes.” Of course he isn't. He merely wanted to get a little “inside information.’ These pipes are made in Birmingham and get into the curio shops of London and elsewhere, where they are sometimes sold at fancy prices to “collectors.” What a world! It isn’t quite so easy to fake New Zealand tobacco because of its comparative freedom from nicotine—the result of the special purifying process it is put through at the factory, and which eliminates most of its nicotine and makes it safe to smoke to any extent. There are only five brands: Cavendish. Riverhead Gold, Desert Gold, Navy Cut No. 3, and Cut Plug No. 10. They are famous, every one of them, for their flavour and matchless fragrance. Of course, they are being imitated—every good thing is. So mind what you buy!*

Advice to Motorists

I “It is stil very necessary to deter : people from taking liquor to excess when driving cars,” said Mr C. R. Orr i Walker, S.M., in the Auckland Court on Wednesday. "The question of suspension of license comes up in these cases and I am considering increasing the period of suspension in the future The Court can only repeat how unwise it is for drivers to take any liquor at all when they arc driving.’ | Poppy Day Next Friday The Nelson Returned Soldiers' Association was granted permission by the City Council last evening to hold Poppy Day on Friday, 21st April. Deer Stalking at Easter Parties stalking 6j. r during the Easter* holidays on the divide between Canterbury and the West Coast had plenty of shooting and some good individual tallies were recorded. Four parties from the Grey district secured a total of 200 deer. The best head was an 18pointcr. Natives Returning to Java After completing labour contracts in Noumea, where they have been engaged over varying terms of years on estates, mining and making roads, a large party of Javanese natives are returning to their homeland by the Roggeveen, which arrived at Auckland from Eastern ports on Wednesday (states the “Herald”). Many of the men have with them their wives and families, who live in after quarters of the ship. Dressed in all manner of scanty and gaudy clothes, the 150 natives are not allowed to set foot ashore in New Zealand. This is the second party to pass through the Dominion within two months, the former numbering about 500. It is said there are still about 7500 Javanese engaged in various works in Noumea.