NEWS IN BRIEF

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXVI, Issue 7908, 28 September 1929, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF

Turks defeated at Kut-el-Amara, 1915.

I RTost animals and birds are so covered with fur or feathers that no direct sunshine reaches the skin. The value of the whaling industry in the Southern Seas towads the Antarctic is about £7,000,000 a year. A yearly average of 12,000 murders arei committed in the United States—fifty times the number recorded in Great Britain. Scots in the Isle of Harris pickle whale flesh and send the meat to the Congo, Japanese also eat large quantities of whale beef. Two English penny stamps recently sold in London for £l3 were Government “forgeries.” They were part of a batch printed for young Royal collectors, including King Edward (then Prince of Wales).

Harry Lauder, the famous comei clian, is a great smoker. His pipe is his companion in all his travels. A right good companion, tool It heightens enjoyment when things are going well, cheers and solaces when the clouds gather. The man who doesn’t smoke doesn’t know what he is missing. He will tell you that tobacco is injurious—so it is—sometimes. The imported tobaccos (many of them full of nicotine) cannot be smoked habitually with ! safety. But the National Tobacco Company’s brands grown and manufactured in New Zealand — with hardly any nicotipe in them — are not only safe smoking, no matter how freely you indulge, but are the most fragrant and delicious on j the market. They owe their fine | quality and freedom from nicotine to i the toasting of the leaf, in which re- ' spect they differ from all other to- ! baccos. The National Tobacco Com- : pany are the pioneers of the N.Z. 1 Tobacco industry in New Zealand. ! Popular brands: “Riverhead Gold” ! (a mild aromatic): “Cavendish” (a delightful medium); “Navy Cut” (a ; choice blend), and “Cut Plug No. ! 10 (Bullshead, rich, dark and fulli flavoured). *