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Shannon News, 21 March 1922, Page 3

‘The Government takes 3d, tfiq mercharit and the retailer together take &]d, and the manufacturer takes 3Jd, which covers the cost of The leaf,” said the general manager of a prominent firm Of suppliers to the trade of tobacco and cigarettes in answer to a question as to how the id the citizen paid for/ his packet of cigarettes came to be allocated. JJuring 1921 314 vessels have need launched at the Clyde shipbuilding yards, aggregating 514,549 tons, while the machinery built was equal to 568,791 horse-power. Last year the tonnage was 569,960 and the horse- ' power 655,917. Allowing for Sundays and holidays this is at the rate cf over a vessel a dav. The Taranaki News says: With a gross tonnage of 9540, the liner Leitrim, which was berthed at New Plymouth on Friday, is the biggest vessel to enter the port so far. Her length is 492 ft overall. She is the fifty-sixth liner to come to New Plymouth and the; eighth this year. It is understood that several nen will appear at the next sitting of the Magistrate’s Court in Levin to answer charges of having been found unlawfully on licensed premises after hours. The cases are the result, of a visit* paid by the police on Saturday l < evening.