“ANTI-SNOB” BALL

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21244, 14 January 1939, Page 15

“ANTI-SNOB” BALL

MOVE AGAINST HIGH-PRICED FUNCTIONS Uhlted Press Association—By Electric Tel egraph —Copyright (Received January 14, 1.7 a.m.) LONDON, January 13. A thousand guests attended a shilling “anti-snob” ball, arranged by the Mayor of Wimbledon in the Town Hall. Men wore day clothes and women afternoon dresses. Numerous titled persons, including Sir Harry Twyford, attended. The Mayor declared that the object of the ball was to enable citizens to enjoy the facilities of the civic building from which they had previously been excluded owing to the high price of charity functions. What some famous doctors think about tobacco: Dr. Lancaster (formerly a well-known coroner): “I dare not. as a phsiologist, tell you there is any proof existing of the injurious effects of good tobacco used in moderation." Dr. Wallace Robertson: “Of almost all luxuries tobacco is the least injurious.” Dr. Willoughby Rogers: "Tobacco is a very useful sedative. It rests the brain and prevents the human machine from over-working. It steadies the nerves." Sir Bruce Porter: “Tobacco is an extreme comfort to a great many, and old people should not be afraid to enjoy one of the few pleasures remaining to people of advanced years.” But all these authorities insist on “pure” tobacco, and probably of the hundreds of brands on the markets of the world the purest are our own New Zealand ones. Toasted, and therefore almost free from nicotine, sweet, fragrant and delightful, they are universally popular. Five brands only, remember: Riverhead Gold, Desert Gold, Navy Cut No. 3, Cavendish and Cut Plug No. 10. These are the only toasted tobaccos manufactured