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Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1923, Page 4

The secret of “liow to keep young at. ninety” was confided to a pressman bv Airs (Anniston, one of Auckland s pioneers, on the occasion ot her Pbfh birthday (states an exchange). "Tho chief thing is brown bread,” she said. “AA’o were all brought up on brown bread in our home in Cornwall, and when we came to New Zoaalnd we still had it. AVe grew our own wheat, and ground it- in a little hniidmdl. and for years tasted no other kind of bread. T have eaten brown bread all my life, and am sure that i> one of the reasons I am so strong and well now. Afy digestion is excellent, and I always enjoy my meals." An amusing tribute to the efficacy of newspaper advertising (says the "New Zealand Herald”), is paid by an officer of an insurance company, who has been visiting country agencies. Included in some advertisements published was a statement to the effect that "ashes are useless, hut the without delay.” AYitli an eye to business, two small hoys, who evidently read the papers, collected and sifted household cinders. They appeared at the country agency hearing between them a benzine tin filled with ashes. Their enterprise did not go unrewarded. as the company’s officer appreciated the ioke.