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REGENT CIGARETTES are delightful in. aroma and d, n fhe tongue they are part 01 a ; tor Gift Scheme as well. Save the Gift Tickets, they introduce you to sixty beautiful presents. Write for Gift Catalogue to Regent, Box 331, Wellington. Now! x A speaker at the Sydney Lyceum recently told two rather good stories of the crude and unmethodical manner in which military nursing was sometimes conducted. A wounded man lying in hospital ward, ,pinned to his bed the notice, “Too sick to be nursed to-day.” In another case a sick soldier was asked by a nurse, if he felt fresher for her washing his face. The reply was that it had been washed 17 times already that morning. * Get an invalid’s chair for that deserving invalid! You and your friendly circle can do so by smoking REGENT CIGARETTES, and collecting the specified number of Tickets. White to Regent, Box 331, Wellington, for Free Gift Catalogue of Sixty Gifts, x
M. Guillaux, the French aviator, was the recipient of new form of “conscience money” a few days ago in Sydney. The am'ount enclosed was in the following letter, which explains itself“M. Guillaux. Dear Sir,— Please accept the enclosed postal note as due to you for yoiir last Hying exhibition at Victoria Park. A friend and myself saw the flights from outside for convenience 1 (not from petty meanness), and I have been wondering ever since how to isend the money along, hence the delay. Hoping this letter will find yoh, and wishing you every success. —Sincerely yours, 0.8. R.”
Mother! Ask your menfolk and their frieticjs to smoke REGENT CIGARETTES, and give you .the Tickets. The right number secures a Free Sewing Machine, or Table-Mangle. Write Regent, Box 331, Wellington, for Catalogue of Free Gifts. , x
Something very much out of the ordinary was witnessed on jRr David Bryce’s farm, Lovell’s Elate (Otago) last week. Mr Bryce had the misfortune to lose the mothers of several late lambs—born in January—with the result that he was compelled toi hand-feed them. He hit upon a novel idea by placing four of the lambs with a cow to be* sucked. She is still attending to them (states the Kaitangata correspondent of the Otago Witness), the lambs following her about and' eating with her, all appearing to be in. the very best of condition.
REGENT —the Cigarette without a regret! Pleasant above all smokes, and profitable, ton, because Gramaphones, Pgsh-carts, Table-mangles can he secured for the REGENT Gift Tickets. Write to Reg-uit, Box 331, Wellington, for Gift Catalogue. x
According to a witness before the inter-State in Sydney, the Australian gluaswoiWf ‘ lha« a keen sense of his own dignity. The witness (a local ink manufacturer) was describing his difficulty in obtaining bottles. “I have to beg of the bottle manufacturers to supply bottles,” he said. “The trouble is that the workers consider it infra dig. to make small bottles. (Laughter.) 1 have known men to resign when their employers have insisted on them making them,”
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 50, 20 June 1914, Page 3
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