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Otago Witness, Issue 3912, 5 March 1929, Page 70

There is a remarkable decline in the popularity- of pipe smoking, and devotees of the weed are showing a decided preference for cigarettes, a Wellington tobacconist told a Dominion representative. He said that very few pipes were being sold now, and prices were being reduced in order to get rid of them. Whereas tobacconists had ordered pipes by the gross formerly, now they- ordered them in dozens, because the demand for them was very small. Th-e consumption of cigarettes, on the other hand, had increased by 75 per cent.

The danger of travelling close behind another car on the country- roads was illustrated near Napier recently when ■the driver of a following car ran into a thick fog of dust raised by the wheels of the car in front (says the Napi-er Daily Telegraph). It so happened that there was a sharp bend in front and th e driver, unable to see the road, found himself on the edge of a sharp decline leading into the gully below. He pulled the wheel round sharply and partly regained the road, but the vehicle skidded and once again left the track, finally- coming to rest against some solid obstruction which prevented the car from careering into the valley- below. The occupants escaped uninjured, but the car was damaged.