GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3675, 9 August 1927, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Two young motor cyclists, Messrs Cathrick and Castley, who are making a tour of the woyld, having left England eleven months ago, arrived at Wellington by the Mdrama from Sydney on Tuesday. They are expected to pass through Foxton next Wednesday, August 17th, on their way to Auckland, which they mean to reach by. way of Wanganui and New Plymouth. iSinee leaving the Old Country, they have covered 20,000 miles out of an estimated total of 35,000, and visited 20 countries. They propose to leave Auckland for Valparaiso, and then ride their motor cycles across the Andes from Chili to Buenos Ayres. The backblock settler of New Zealand feels isolated, especially when rain makes the unmetalled roads into a quagmire during the winter and impassable to pack horses, let alone vehicular traffic, but many settlers in Central Australia apparently labour under equally as difficult conditions. This fact was indicated by Mrs. Gladys Sandford, of Auckland 1 , who, in company with Miss Stella Christie, of Thames, crossed the Continent of Australia no less than four times by motor. On her return to the Dominion by the Niagara, Mrs. Sandford detailed her varied experiences, and amongst other things mentioned that she had met a squatter in the hinterlands of the Commonwealth, who was toiling on his holding with his wife and two daughters. The latter were .charming young women, and such had been the isolation under which they lived that neither had seen a white baby or a train. The curious habit so common in America of popping an unlighted cigar in the mouth and chewing an inch or two of it to pulp, is not popular with us, although the chewing of black plug tobacco is common enough amongst sailors everywhere. However, with the rank and file of Englishmen “the pipe’s the thing” and a source of enjoyment, daily, to millions. But discrimination should be exercised in the choice of tobacco. Brands full of nicotine (as the American tobaccos usually are) ought to be cut out, because nicotine is the source of all the mischief when tobacco proves injurious. Our New Zealand giown tobaccos are about the purest going and contain only a trifling percentage of nicotine —a negligible quantity. That is Avhy you can .go on smoking them all the time with the utmost safety. They won’t do you any harm. And they are delightfully fragrant. You can get them of any strength. Ask for “Riverhead Gold 1 ,” mild, “Navy .Cut” (Bulldog-) medium, or “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead) full strength. 54,