LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, 20 August 1937, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Cabbage, cauliflower and lettuce plants may now be obtained at Mrs. Egan’s. Those intending to travel overseas should make a point of communicating with Messrs C. F. Millward and Co. who will furnish them with full par. titulars with regard to fares, sailings, etc. For girls’ and boy’s footwear and slippms for both young and old, cal! at Larcombe’s, where a wide variety will be seen. TJio Wavcrley Plunket Society bone fited to the extent of £ls and the Waitotaffi- Society by £5 by this year's distribution of the T. G. McCarthy Trust. Gibson’s Stores have an interesting message in another column to town and country residents. Hughson’s have an interesting an. nouucemont in this issue with rega; d to their all-wool blankets which they are quoting at exceptionally low prices. Hold and Sons, in 'another column, invito town and country settlers to call and secure quotations for spray painting work in the most modern style. A rare opportunity of securing glass, arc and croc-kery of all kinds is being offered by Douglas Hoots’ Central Stores, who are giving customers a ?0 per cant, reduction on nU cash parch as os of crockery up to the end of August . They are offering groceries .hardware, seeds and farm tools at city prices.

Messrs Haworth and Hands notify in anothc/r cohnmi the prices of thir. toon varieties of Canterbury hand picked seed potatoes. They have 'also a full range of lawn-mowers and also steel wheelbarrows. .

Hoys with a mechanical turn of mind should visit the Central Stores, where they can obtain meccano sets and pt'irts at wholesale prices.

Parliament is due to meet on Sep., tember 0, and will rise early in December, afterwards ro.asscmbling in February.

Caughoy and Rankin have bclon included in the 21 players to go 'nto training Tor the second test match ag. ainst the South Africans.

The Borough Council balance-sheet is now open for inspection at the offices of the council during office hours.

Messrs R. A. Adams and Suns have qji advertisement in this issue of special interest to farmers.

Wrainw right's are now showing an advance display of Summer Breeze in delightful shades and pleasing designs.

Some Avomlei-ful bargains can he secured Hut AVinchcstor's bargain sto.ro. Prices will be found in- another column. A final check of the gale takings for the Rugby test niluitch South Africa v. New Zealand last Saturday reveals an increase of £sl over the amount previously published. The actual tak. tugs were £BlBl/11A of which the Government will receive £929 in amusement tax.

'When pussing through Miami, Florida, on his journey to Panama, the Minister of Finance and Marketing, the IT on. W. 'Nash, noticed in one of the main streets a sign with the words Tom Tloeney and a pair of boxing glovds undcnuMh, entered the building to shake hands with the former Now Zealand heavyweight, boxer, who fought Gene Tnnney for ' the 'world title seven years ago. Tie lias since been a cafe proprietor at Miami since December last, hud his business turn been doing reasonably well. In conversation with Mr. Nash lie recalled the Hon. R. Semple and the 1 member for Gisborne, Mr. D. Coleman.

Au inspection is invited of the large range of spring coats on view at Langslow's. It’s n epic or thing, but men there* are. and many of us have mob them, who can’t, for the life of them get a really good comfortable, smoke out of a pipe. A few whiffs and out it goes, every time! Such smokelrs (Ex-King Edward, by the way, is said to be one of them), usually give the pipe a rest and take to cigarettes. But while there are millions of cigarette smokers, millions of others must have their pipe. Cigarettes are no use to th cm. As for tobacco, the favourite cigarette brands, as everybody knows, are Eiverhoad Gold and Desert Gold, both unapprdaehed for .flavour and fragrance, while for pipe smokers there are no blonds so much in request as Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshoad), Cav. endish, and Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog) . All these tobaccos are toasted. Hence their extraordinary pur. ity and comparative harmlcssncss. Toasting eliminates excess of nicotine in them. And smokers soon discover that a pipe charged with any of the pipe blends named will "keep-in” for "toasted” burns away to the last shred.