“Buna (in New Guinea) is steaming, foetid jungle. For instance, when approaching it by plane you can smell it at 3,000 feet. It’s a most incredible stench of rotting vegetation. The rainfall here is extremely high; it’s nothing unusual in the rainy season for one and a quarter inches to fall in a night. Naturally, mosquitoes, leeches, snakes, and other vermin abound.” —An Australian officer in a recorded interview with the 8.8. C. observer, Richard Dimbleby. WHAT IS BANTS? B-A-N-T-S is the difference between a comfortable, clear speaking throat and a sore, croaky one. Carry Bants always with you Your chemist has Bants. 1/1. New and popular throat jubes. Everyone likes them. Sore throat? Ask for Bants. Manufactured by Stacey Bros., Ltd., 385 Khyber Pass Road, Auckland. 4
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 January 1944, Page 5
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