FROM THE SOUTH

NZ Truth, Issue 1183, 2 August 1928, Page 12

FROM THE SOUTH

(By "The Toff.") BIG improvements are likely to be made at Addihgton. *<* • # .Curfew Boy is working like a probable winner. •■■•■■#. ■#.■•■#. The aged gelding, Free Pointer, is being touched up and varnished at Oamaru. He looks like a new suit. # * * S. Hawthorne, who usually has a small team' of decent pacers about his place, is busy with Madam Locanda and Rita McKinney. • # * * The New Zealand Cup candidate, Terence Dillon, will be seen out this month. He has come on like a house on fire since he started work m May. v * # Brentloc is a brilliant pacer and the fastest beginner, from a stand m New Zealand. A mile or mile and a-quarter are his pet journeys. # * * Now, keep an eye on Some Wilkes. This gelding is very well and should go near to paying a first dividend at Addington. A mile and a-quarter will suit him nicely. * * * z Onoto has done a lot of racing and appears to be as ,far from winning a race as the day he was foaled.! * , . * . # '■ There is nothing wrong with Count Dee. On track work he should win a race. But somehow he doesn't. ■ ..*. . -•* . . * • Happy Rosa is a champion m track work, but : backers will need to be cautious about her on race days. #■' ■#'■#■ The crack trotting mare, Escapade, has left J. 'McLean's stable arid has gone into Jv Bryce's establishment. , . ft ..# * Jack ; Potts is.big m condition. He is engaged m the . National Cujj, .to be decided' on the third day of the August meeting. • ■ # . ■ # *'...-;; Unless something happens to him, Jolly Pet will be an early winner. He is a true pacer and a genuine stayer.

"N.S.N.S." : What do those letters stand for? Why, the "National Society of Non-Smokers." London is the home of the new society; the President of which has just been proudly telling the world:- "We form two -thirds of the entire population." What? Two-thirds of the population of. London non-smokers? Oh, tell us another, Mr. President! Why, everybody smokes nowadays, bar a few ..unfortunate persons who don't smoke because they can't! Eminent physicians tell us that tobacco is not injurious provided it is good arid as free' from nicotine as pos-' sible; also that it is often positively beneficial. It is of course unfortunately true that the imported tobaccos are as full of, nicotine they can «be. That's where they differ so essentially from our own New Zealand brands which- contain.: so little nicotine that they may be smoked all day long with the utmost impunity; And. owing to the toasting of the leaf (quite a novelty), they- are remarkable for flavour and fragrance. You. can get them any strength. "Riverhead Gold" is mild, "Navy Cut" (Bulldog) is medium, and "Out Plug No. W (Bullhead) full.*