Page 7 Advertisements Column 3

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 22 June 1926, Page 7

Our proscription department is our pride. We luive tiie confidence of tfie physicians and the public. This is increasing our business every month. Why? Because being the most important part of our business, it at ail times receives our most careful attention. We fill so many prescriptions that our stock is always the freshest and purest. So send your next proscription to L. .7. Williamson date W. Baxter), Chemist, Theatre Buildings, Timam. An English tourist while “doing” tin. Waikato recently was surprised and disgusted to notice so many Maori women enjoying their pipes. On his return to Auckland he monfioned the matter to an old colonist, remarking that it was a sure sign of the'degeneracy of the Maori race when their women smoked pipes. Said the Now Zealander: “Wo.ll, if that is so, the Irish women of the working class must have been degenerating fur a good while, because T remember seeing them smoking clays in J)ublin when T was a hoy.” The tourist said no more. Therm is nothing wrong with pipe smoking for man or woman so long as tho right tobacco is used. Oboosc a. brand as free, from nicotine as you can. Thai’s all. Our New Zealandgrown tobaccos contain only a trifling percentage of nicotine, and you can’t boat them for flavour and aroma. You can smoke them for hours and they won’t do you any harm. Ask for •■Riverheud Cold.” mild; “Navy Cut” Ifj” (Bullshead). full strength.