LICENSES REFUSED

Hokitika Guardian, 8 June 1929, Page 6

LICENSES REFUSED

, IN MID-CANTERBURY. (By Telegrnph—Per Press Association.) CHISLSTCHURCH, June 7. Four applications for licenses for hotels were refused by the newly appointed Mid-Canterbury Licensing Committee at Leeston to-day. The Committee heard evidence and legal argument. * The Chairman, Mr H. A. Young, S.M., in giving the Committee’s decision, said that the Committee was not satisfied that it had power by law to grant the applications, which would, therefore, have to be refused. He expressed the hope, however, that the applicants would bring the matter before the Supreme Court or the Full Court. Ashburton, formerly a “dry” district, has now been included' in MidCanterbury, which legally is a “wet” district, though, in fact, nearly the half of it—that part which was formerly in Ashburton—is dry.

What! Fifty guineas for a tobacco pipe? Yes, that was the figure demanded by a Loudon tobacconist iccently for an elaborately carved Meerschaum exhibited in his Bond Street window. Some pipe that. But a smoke out of a shilling briar would taste just as good! It’s not the pipe that counts. It’s the tobacco you stuff

it with! Purity is the great tiling The purer the tobacco the less nicotine it will contain. The foreign tobaccos are full of the stuff. That’s why their constant use is so bad. The purest tobaccos of all are the New Zealand. Their comparative freedom from nicotine is largely due to the toasting of the leaf. You can smoke them till the cows come home, and no harm done. There’s a brand to suit everybody. Those in most request are; “Cavendish” (the sporting man’s favourite), “Navy Cut No. 3” (another delightful medium,) “Riverhead Gold” (a sweet mild aromatic) and “Cut Plug No. 10” ( a tobacco the vetern smoker will enjoy because it is rich, dark, full flavoured sort). They are on sale by all tobacconists.