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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 52, 25 November 1926, Page 12

An Australian visitor to the Royal Show savs he was simply thunderstruck bow smokers and others expectorate on the footpaths in New Zealand (states the Auckland “Star”). When he had spoken to his friends they said it was on account of the large influx of people from the country, but his observations did not bear this out, for the chief offenders seemed to be well dressed city dwellers, who had not learnt the very first rudiments of cleanliness and good taste. Something should be done in the matter, because it bad become an evil apparent to all those who were observant to notice what, to say the least of it, was a disgusting habit. Mirrors with a slightly convex surface, which have the result of slimming down the person using them, are said to be popular in American dross salons. Six lobsters from Donegal weighing together fust under a hundredweight wore lately sold in the Liverpool Fish Market. The largest of them was 33in. long.