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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4957, 29 March 1926, Page 1

Ca’ale messages state that, dengue or ’oreak-bone fe.ver is. epidemic in certain districts in. Australia. “There a'/e. some diseases which We do not get in New Zealand, and this, is one of them,” says the. Wellington Post. “The. health authorities do> not expect that it will come to the, Dominion. Dengue fever is common in many parts oil the world, and has) oc-' curred before lih Australia. The: carrier of the disease is ai mosquito called stegomyia. fasciata. The malady is an acute infectious, disease, the fever generally lasting about nine days, accompanied by bad joint- a,nd muscle pains and a rash. . It tends' to break out very suddenly, and spreads through a community Woe wildfire, dying out in a few weeks.’’ He forgot the tobacco! A backblocks settler in the S’ar North, where there are no trains or coaches, makes monthly trips by dray to the nearest township for stores. Last time he discovered on getting home thait he had forgotten t he month’s supply of tobacco. There* was' consternation in the camp ! Tlie men had rather he had forgotten anything than that) ! Nothing daurited the boss harnessed up again n-ext day and started i’or the distant township once more for,the tobacco The weed is almost as necessary s,s food to the men of the’ outback. So it is to lots of other men. The great thing is to pick a bran d as free, from nicotine as possible. Most of the imported brands are full ol itTliat’s where -hey differ from our N»w Zealand-grown tobaccos, which ’col®” tain so. little nicotine that they may h « smoked all day, even to excess, without .the slightest after effects. They are to.asted and do not affect the heart or throat. Ask for “Riverhead Gold,” mild ; Navy Cut” (Bulldog), medium ”, or “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bu-lshead), full strength.*