DISHONEST STEWARDS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20513, 3 September 1936, Page 11

DISHONEST STEWARDS

PURSER’S SAFE RIFLED Bv I eieurapn - Press associanor. WELLINGTON, September 2. Two stewards, Frederick James (26) and Peter John Frederick Ransom (17), pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to-day to theft on the Rangitane between Panama and Wellington, of £4lO in money, letters of credit for £lOO and £BO, and a bank draft for £lOO, of a total value of £7lO, the property of the New Zealand Shipping Company. The chief steward sp.id Ransom, on a second interview, admitted taking the money. James admitted being with him when the offence was committed. The men produced the missing money, but said if they had taken any letters of credit they had been thrown overboard. together with certain envelopes. Detective-Sergeant Tricklebank, said both accused made statements clearing up the matter. The accused were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.

Political notabilities in London are smokers almost to a man. Mr Baldwin’s Cherrywood is world-famed; Mr Anthony Eden prefers a well-seasoned briar: Mr Ramsay MacDonald enjoys an after-dinner cigar; Mr Malcolm MacDonald smokes a special brand of cigarettes; Mr Lloyd George, like Mr Ramsay MacDonald, is a connoisseur in cigars. Far fewer cigars, by the way, are smoked in New Zealand (in proportion to population) than in England But New Zealanders are great pipe and cigarette smokers. Look at the number of our tobacconists’ shops. Tobacco? Well, we get innumerable brands from overseas but our own “Loasted” challenges comparison with any of them. Not only is the quality of these brands super-excellent but they are safe—no matter how freely you may indulge, owing to the trifling amount of nicotine. Toasting (the manufacturers’ exclusive process), is a wonderful purifier. But just as it’s not all gold that glitters it’s not all toasted that’s genuine. Buy Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead). Cavendish, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold and you’ll get the real thing. ...