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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20354, 10 March 1928, Page 9

PIPE-SMOKING AND WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE Women voted for the first time in New Zealand in 1883. but men smoked Dill’s Best Tobacco for the first time in 1848. nearly fifty years before. Women still have "the suffrage: men still have their favourite pipe tobacco. Eighty years of scientific knowledge in the art of mellowing and blending and generations of tobacco culture have gone into the development of Dill's Best. Step by step Dill's Best has been perfected! Of all the pleasures man enjoys, pipe-smoking costs the least. Barlow Bros., Christchurch, are the New Zealand Distributors. ■—Advt.

The statute of the eighth Duke of Devon fihiro, in Whitehall, London, represents that nobleman wearing the riband of the Order of the Garter over his right shoulder, instead of over the left, its correct position. Other mistakes are to bo found on several other London memorials. The Duke of Wellington’s equestrian statue at the Royal Exchange represents the’ great soldier apparently in Tiis stockings, without boots or spurs, and his horse is minus its saddle girth. The statue of Cromwell, outside Westminster Hq’l, shows the Protector booted and spurred, but bo is wearing his spurs upside down.