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Otago Witness, Issue 4033, 30 June 1931, Page 11

“ The men should be made to pay for their cigarettes and tobecco; in fact, f think they should give up smoking altogether when they cannot afford it,” remarked the welfare officer (Mrs Marsh), at a meeting of the Stratford Hospital Board last week, when reporting to members on the supplies obtained through the board. “ Why don’t tfhey do as my grandfather did at one time—he sucked a button to water his mouth! ” she added amid laughter. Mrs Marsh admitted she liked cigarette smoking for its flavour, despite Mrs Phillips’s protest of surprise, but added that she did not indulge in the fragrant weed on account of the expense. Walnut-growing in Marlborough, once the trees come to maturity", is a liighly- ■ profitable side line (says the Express). Indeed, there is one Blenheim resident who is making a great deal more 'off his town-growing walnuts this year than he is off his sheep station. He has some 24 trees in bearing, and has already sold £72 worth of nuts, while he has in hand another half-dozen ' sacks, which will ‘bring him in between £2O and £3O, so that the season’s income from the trees will be round about £lOO. The trees occupy no space which could be profitably used for other purposes.