TRAWLER'S FIND

Waikato Independent, Volume XLI, Issue 3892, 15 August 1941, Page 3

TRAWLER'S FIND

ANCHOR DRAGGED UP MANY YEARS IN SEA While the trawler “Margaret” was fishing in an area between The Slipper, The Shoe and the mainland one morning recently, her nets fouled an object which on being hauled to the surface proved to be an anchor weighing somewhere in the vicinity of a ton. The anchor, which was of the bower type, was dragged aboard the trawler and brought to Tauranga. It was over six feet in length, and from its appearance—it was badly corroded in parts and thickly encrusted with many forms of marine growth—it had evidently been resting on the bed of the ocean for many years. One end of the stock had evidently been broken off at some time or else it had rusted away. The anchor which is to be taken to Auckland, appeared to bp a fairly ancient vintage.

An Auckland joker, thinking to take a rise out of his tobacconist the other day, asked him if he’d any tobacco that positively wouldn’t burn the tongue or irritate the throat. “Why, yes,” replied the whiff merchant, “several!” The joker looked incredulous. “Most tobaccos act like that if you smoke more than a couple of pipes of them at a time,” continued the tobacconist, “if you ask me, but the the toasted brands. They’re different. They neither burn the tongue nor irritate the throat, not even if you smoke ’em till the cows come home. Toasting does it. It’s the manufacturers’ own process and the only one. It neutralises the nicotine, and for flavour and bouquet there’s nothing to touch these tobaccos. They’re unique. And, mind you, that all I’m telling you is generally known, is proved by the demand for Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Cavendish, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold. I ought to know, because I sell more of them than of the imported.” And .thus another convert to “toasted” was made.