STOCKS LOW

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXII, Issue 8869, 5 February 1943, Page 4

STOCKS LOW

WALLPAPER IN DOMINION For some time past stocks of wallpaper in the Dominion have been low and there has not been a wide choice from which to make a selection. At the present moment stocks are down to a very low mark owing to comparatively heavy Inlying recently on the part of the public on the principle that ii is better to buy now, as in ihe nrar flit lire i here may not, bo am, at all. The outlook for replenishing stocks is certainly not very bright, '{'here is an\ amount of wallpaper on order from overseas, bin it is given no priority, and although some is-ready for shipment, there does not seem to lie much prospect at present of any shipping space.

“Twenty cigarettes a day?” laughed the tobacconist. “That’s nothing! Why, some of my ‘regulars’ smoke twice as many and one of ’em smokes a hundred!” “Lie must tie a whale for them!’’ murmured the customer. “Well, a hundred's plenty,” admitted the tobacconist,” but a whole lot depends on the tobacco—even twenty a clay’s too many if you smoke the wrong brand. I smoke cigarettes myself—heaps of ’em—but they don’t hurt me worth a cent, because my favourite’s Riverhead Gold, and as that’s toasted, with hardly any nicotine in it, I’m as right as rain! It’s toasting that cleans up the nicotine.” “Isn’t there another toasted cigarette tobacco?” queried the customer. “There is,” said the tobacconist. “Desert Gold —At at Lloyd’s—so are the three other toasted brands: Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Cavendish and Navy Cut No. ;> (Bulldog). But they’re for the pipe. Fact is, smokers are a jolly sight more particular than they used to be. Must have the lx-si. now! -and they find it is toasted.” So Dial's how one more convert to toasted was made!