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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 12, 5 September 1931, Page 6

A general survey over the whole country had heen made, and he was able to report that the goats were not .-nearly so numerous as prior to. this sea'son, . stated the c.hief ranger (Mr B. W. Larsen) in his report to the Egmont Nationai Parlc Board the other morning. Ile w§.s convinced that the goat prablem was now well in hand. The total 'number of goats destroyed in the park was 4581. A rare old print, pickecl up for a song m an Auckland second-hand shop the other day, shows a physici.'m of the period in wig, long coat, kneebreeches and three-cornered hat, entering a siclc chamber, the knob of his cane pressed against his nose. The cane was an important item of every doctor's outfit in days of old. The hollow knob of ivory, silver or gold, contained snuff as a protection against infection. Tobacco is certainly a wonderful disinfectant. Perhaps that is why doctors to-day are generally great smokers. But knowing the deadiy nature of nicotine they are careful to select a tobacco as free from the poison as possible. No difficulty about that — in New Zealand, because our tobacco (unlike the imported which is generally full of nicotine) is toasted in the process of manufacture, and thus rendered safe to smoke to any extent. To toasting, also, it owes its unequalled flavour and incomparable bouquet. There are only four torands: Riverhead Gold, Navy Cut No. 3, Cavendish, and Cut Plug No. 10. " 197 Bill snoozes, too,, upon his bracken hed, Folks call us "kids" because we're young, And class us as the chumps among-, But our young brains are fresh and bright To sense the gulf 'twixt wrong and right, One fact at teast is understood: "We kriow tbe things which do us good; And when we cough or colds endure, Enquire for Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. * 11 1