LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, 17 November 1939, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

A lady's bike, practically new, is offered for sale.

A reward is offered for the return of three keys lost between the Tost Oflire and bridge.

A bridge and 000 evening lu aid of the funds of the New Zealand Ked Cross Society (incorporated), will be held in tho Town Rail supper-room on Monday, November doth., at 8 p.m.

Those intending vo travel overseas should make a point of communicating with Messrs C. F. Millward and. Co., Wanganui, who will furnish them with fail particulars with regard to fares, sailings He.

The public of Futon and district are cordially invited to attend the opening of the local Centennial Memorial which takes place at the Beach on Saturday. December dud., at d p.m. Mr. It. Cl. Dickie, M.F., will perform the opening ceremony. Famous writers and their pipes: Priestly (author of “The Good Companions “) smokes a briar, so does J. M, Barrie; Arnold Bennett liked a calabak’.: Tennyson and Carlyle smoked penny days; Thackeray puffed a meerschaum; Mark Tvvyin loved a corncob; .fas. Payne, the novelist, prefeVred a “hubble-bubble.” As for tobacco, Barrie’s favourite blend is of his own devising; Payne smoked nothing but latakin; Conan Doyle,‘of Sherlock Holmes fame, smoked common shag! No accounting for tastes! Most literary celebrities (generally 'heavy smokers-, like a medium strength tobacco; something they can keep smoking for hours. One famous New Zealand brands with their flavour and fascinating aroma, leave nothing to bo'desired in that respect. Yon can smoke anv of fro hve favouiitos. *Rn\ orhend Gold, Desert Gold, Navy Gut No. ?. (Bulldog), Cavendish (the popular sporting mixture), or Cut Plug No. 10 (Bulishead), rich, mellow and fullstrendh, tvith comfort and safety, because, deprived of piTCilcally all their nicotine, they arc just as harmless as thev can be.