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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 68, 25 July 1913, Page 3

THROUGH Our EXCHANGES. 0 A line of 2500 fat wethers from one of the stations in the Mangaweka dis- ' trict was disposed of the other day at 25s per head, tho deal representing £3125. A pastoralist also sold 28 fat steers at £ls per head, representing £420. Sweet Slice GOLDEN EAGLE TOBACCO pleases every smoker. Cool, mild, delicious —it won’t burn the tongue. Try a tin. There's nothing tc eaual it. * ‘Thus a Manawatu contemporary—•!“What luggage, madam p” asked porter at the Masterton railway sta, turn of a stately Maori woman, whc produced a certificate of vaccination. “Only te small-pox,” she replied. The porter vanished. “Got any baccy?” “For sure! here’s some Sweet Slice GOLDEN EAGLE.” “Just what I smoke and there’s none better; it doesn’t burn +he tongue.” x With regard to tho decision of the Civil Service Commissioners to intro duce calculating machines .into the Go vernment Departments (says the Lyt telton Times), it is understood that f class of instruction in their manipulation is to be started shortly in Christ church. All tho telephone girls, il is said, will be given an opportunity of joining the class, and application? have been invited from girls in tin exchange who desire to take up thh ■ new branch of work. Every man who likes a good smokf should trv Sweet Slice GOLDEN EAGLE TOBACCO. Cool and sweet: , it can’t burn the tongue. Try a tin. x On his attention bejng, drawn tc 'j the published cablegram from Lon don with reference to the colour-testi imposed on officers by the Union Stean Ship Company, Sir James Mills stat cd that the tests imposed on the com ( pany’s officers had been in force for tin ■last 20 years without serious complaint. He also stated that the Com pany had no intention ‘of increasing j the severity of the tests. .

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