It is now estimatsd that the new Mersey tunnel will cost £6,000,000, a tunnel aecident in Amorica having caused the ventilation plans to be revised. The original estimate was £5,000,000. The condition of Germany has made a very big impression upon marriages in that country. In the first half of last year the number of marriages was 70,000 fewer than the normal and 30,000 less than in 1930. The London and Paris Mints, working in collaboration, have concluded arrangements in Belgrade for the coinage of 32,500,000 silver pieces for Yugoslavia, these being the first silver coins to be issued in that country since the war. No scholars under 17 will take part in tug-of-war, girls under 18 will be banned from the long jump, and crosscountry runs for boys under 17 will be limited to three miles, if the recommendations of the recent eonference on athletics for school children are carried out. "Astonishing to say," writes Captain Marvel, in a popular London weekly, "there are still follcs who know so little about New Zealand that they suppose it is part of Australia, and inhabited chiefly hy cannibals. What will they say when . I tell them that 'Maoriland' contains thriving1 and populous cities, with all the necessai'ies and most of the luxuries of civilisation including-, by the way, some of the finest tobacco I have ever smoked. The culture of this tobacco, and its manufacture now constitute a flourishing New - Zealand industry glving employment, directly and indirectiv, to many hands. Some of the foreign tobaccos are not as free from nicotine as they should be, but little faulth can he found with the New Zealand article in that respect, because the special process to which it is subjected by the manufacturers i*ids it of excess of nicotine and renders it safe to smoke. Even con. noisseurs commend it." (Reference is made by this writer to the four toasted brands. (there are no others) Riverhead Gold, Navy Cut No. 3, Cavendish and Cut Plug No. 10.) BEFORE you tuclc the kiddies in, sprinkle a few drops of NAZOL on their nighties; it will save you a lot of worry. ) , ... "* 'vtfrtev.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 261, 28 June 1932, Page 3
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