LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, Volume LII, 4 March 1931, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

■ There are about ddOO railway seasontickets issued between Brighton f.rui London. -More than dO per cent, of (lie world gold output conies from South African mines. .Mechanical failure, is the rarest of all causes of aviation accidents in Great Britain. The i’atea County Council advertises in this issue that 10 per cent, additional will be added to all rates unpaid after Friday. March 20. Rave you tried the fid gingerbread cakes at Heed’s Paten Bakery? They are delicious and are proving- a most popular line. ‘•When I’m real hungry for a smoke. ’ ’ said a speaker at a social gathering the other day, “a cigarette is no earthly good to me. It’s like offering a fancy biscuit to a starving man. liven a cigar leaves me cold. A pipe of good honest Coif up’ is what I crave —New Zealand toasted for preference.” Most veteran smokers are like that. They prefer a well-loaded briar (o the best cigar or cigarette. As to the Xew Zealand toasted tobacco it has this to recommend it: the toasting riils it of most of its nicotine, and leaves it sweet, cool, ami [Hire, whereas the foreign tobaccos are often rank with nicotine —a deadly poison, bear in mind. Can stuff like that be good to smoke, day after day, think you'? There are only four brands of toasted: Tviverhoad Gold. Xavy Cut Xo. o, Cavendish. and Cut Plug Xo. 10. They are all famous for their delicious flavour, ami line aroma. And you can smoke them freely oven to excess. They arc toasted and therefore harmless.

Langslow's have some sale 'bargains advertised in this issue. Soviet llussia’s .population is now 1.30,000,000. and is growing at the rate nf 4.000,000 yearly. Telegraphic communication between Gisborne and Napier has been restored to normal, but telephone calls arc now very few indeed between the two centres. The reason is not difficult to explain, for the Napier and Hastings exchanges are almost completely out of action. Only a few subscribers in both Napier and Hastings have been connected, and until a thorough examination of the cables is possible no idea can be given of how long it will take to provide another complete service. Tt will moan building practically a new exchange in each of these centres. The true spirit of cricket was illustrated in a charming manner in the Hampshire v. Australia match, which was played on May "1 of last year. Bradman, who had gone in first with Jackson, had So runs to get in order to achieve the honour of being the first Australian to make 1000 runs by the end of May. After making 2S the rain came down in torrents and (here were only a few minutes left before stumps would be drawn. Hradman had given up all hope of gaining the coveted distinction when to his surprise Lord Tennyson, the Hampshire captain, after going up and saying something to the bowler, announced that one more over -would be played. The bowler then sent down a full toss to leg, which Bradman promptly sent to the boundary. The next ball was. a long hop. which followed the previous one, and (ho much desired distinction was gained and the fieldsmen and batsmen hurried to the pavilion.