LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, 5 January 1940, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

A reward is offered for the return of a Flying badge that has been lost.

A fawn coloured rug that has been lost is enquired for in this issue.

■ Mrs. J. Cc.v and family have a notice of thanks jin this issue.

An advertiser requires two unfurnished rooms.

An advertiser has room for a couple of boarders.

Gibson's Ltd. have an advertisement in this issue with regard to their stocks of summer foods.

Hughson’s Ltd. wish their many customers a happy New Year, and offer suggestions with regard to holiday requirements.

Those intending to travel overseas should make a point of communicating with Messrs C. F. Millward and Co., \Yauganui, who will furnish them with full particulars with regard to fares, sailings etc.

His Worship the Mayor, at the request of the Defence Authorities, is convening a public meeting for Friday (to-night) to consider what stops shall bo taken to assist in the campaign for recruits for the second and subsequent echelons of the Special Force.

'' Two local residents who are retired men, have been in the habit of playing cribbage on wet afternoons for the past six years. One of them has taken the trouble to keep a record of the games and finds now that on an average 1800 games a year have been played.

Speaking to a “Nows" reporter at Kiv.vera on Wednesday night, the Hon. Walter Nash said: "The New Zealand troops will be well oil their way before the general public know they have gone. ’’ Though the Now Zealand public have no knowledge of the date of departure of .the troops, tin? Gorman authorities evidently have, for the announcer of a Gorman stvflAn a few days ago impudently wished the New Zealanders who are leavin? for overseas a happy New Year, and actually gave the date of their leaving.

“I went out in the Naval Division to Gallipoli with the three most distinguished officers us platoon commanders who have ever left the shores of Groat Britain on an expedition of that nature/' said Major-General Freyberg, speaking at the reception in the Auckland Town Hall recently. “The first was Charles Lister, scholar of Eton with a double first in ‘Greats’ at Balliol, a groat scholar, who would have risen to any position in the Foreign Office. The second was Patrick Shaw Stewart, an equally great scholar and probably one of the greatest classical scholars at Oxford for 100 years.' The third was the national poet, Rupert Brooke.’’

To rail at tobacco for thirty years and denounce smoking as a vice and thou conclude that you’ve been “barking up the wrong tree’’ all the time? What a ‘right about face!’ The late Professor Huxley, the eminent scientist, was an anti-tobuccoite for half his lifetime. One day a friend persuaded him to try a mild havana, and straightaway he changed his tune! Ho found it delicious and lived to admit “there’s no more harm in a pipe of tobacco than there is in a cup of tea.’’ But tobacco varies in quality just as tea does. In both cases it’s a wise plan to buy the best but not necessarily the most expensive. In the case of tobacco the-best is the genuine ‘toasted’ which though quite moderate in price is 'matchless for bouquet and unrivalled for purity. The nicotine it contains (common to all tobaccos) is eliminated by toasting, and' hence the tiarniiossncss.of the five toasted brands —Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullaltead), Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Rivemad Gold and Desert Gold.