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Taranaki Daily News, 25 November 1922, Page 11

The English price of petrol has been reducted by 5d a gallon to the dealer and s|d to the consumer (says a Home paper). Hitherto the price of No.l grade petrol has been 2s 5M P er gaWon. Motorists will now be able to purchase No.l grade at 2s per gallon and No. 3 grade ut L? 10d per gallon throughout England ar ’ Wales, the price in Scotland being Id more thap English prices. The next craze among Sydney women may he the smoking of pipes. The fashion was introduced a few days ago,when a wejl-dresscd women greeted Sydney from the deck of an incoming mail-boat with a pipe in her month. Commenting upon the probable arrival of the fashion, a leading Sydney tobacconist, who travelled by the same steamer, says: “There is not a place in London where woman are not smoking. In the streets, the restaurants, and at work you see them. The pi]ios they smoke mostly in the hotels, using a very light tobacco with p slight sensation of latakia, You go to a man’s place on business ami see his typiste pulling her cigarette, with |an ash-tray on her desk.”