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Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 34, 7 August 1929, Page 3

Compared to others in my iife and verse I may be better or I may be worse, But this stands fixed, in action or in plan I am, and always have been, “My Own Man!’’ Wise silence serves to make a peaceful life, Comparisons at best but foster strife, True excellence must in itself endure, Like Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Farmers and tractor owners who recently observed the advertisements in this paper for Voco Power Kerosene will no doubt be glad to learn that the local distributors are Star Garage and Motor Transport Co. Mr L H Bell has a replace advt on page 5 to notify the public that he has on show a “Gane” nnlk ing machin.e Woods' GrPea Peppermint Care Foe Influenza Colas. They staged a mock trial at a Centra Otago township recently. The prisoner was —Tobacco. There was a judge and jury and a large attendance of the public. Many witnesses were called, and Counsel having addressed the Court, the Judge summed up. He said accused (represented by a well-known local resident) had hosts of friends and many enemies. He was accused of being a poisoner. But when tobacco poisoned people it was their own fault—they smoked the wrong kind. Imported tobacco was mostly full of nicotine and therefore highly injurious Happily, however, there were other kinds —those produced in New Zealand, for example, by the famous National Tobacco Co., the pioneers of the tobacco industry in the Dominion. The question for the jury was: “Is tobacco guilty or not guilty of poisoning ?” The verdict was: “Not guilty, so far as the National Tobacco Company’s tobacco is concerned, because it is toasted, as no other tobacco is, and u innocuous.” The Company’ “Riverhead Gold”, “Cavendish”, "Navy Cut” and “Cut Plug No io” ate all toas ted.

The 1.0. A. |The Insurnce Office of Australia, Ltd.j Transacts Fire, Tftarine, and all classes of Occident Insurance at Lowest Current Rates. The Popular Colonial Company Our Agent for KAII AIA and the surrounding District is MR. H. r. McCarthy, not Beil & Matthews.