CHILDREN IN TRAFFIC

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20821, 3 June 1939, Page 23 (Supplement)

CHILDREN IN TRAFFIC

“SAFETY FIRST AWARDS More than a quarter of a million London elementary school children competed this year in the 21st. annual competition on road-safety knowledge, held by the London Safety First Council. Prizes were awarded to the 300 successful competitors by Mrs Neville Chamberlain at Kingsway Hall. A feature of this year’s entries was the large number of ingenious and well-executed drawings illustrating Safety First points. Lord Ebbisham, president of the council, who was in the chair, said that, in spite of the enormous increase in road traffic since the council was founded in 1918 the mortality among young children had not been increased. “But I am sure,” Lord Ebbisham continued, “that three-quarters of the accidents could be avoided by care and extra concentration. “We believe that by teaching boys ami girls to be careful in traffic we shall have no) only loss accidents now but lielter drivers, cyclists and pedestrians in the future.” Mrs Chamberlain, who shook hands with each of the young | rizc-winners, stressed the value of Safety First instruction for children.

“ Tobacco absolutely free from nicotine?” writes Mr Eugene Orme, an analytical chemist of note. “ No, I’m afraid it’s as hopeless to look for that as it is to discover the philosopher’s stone or the elixer of life. The nearest approach to tobacco of such purity—and it is a near approach—is made in New Zealand. I know, because when I was there for the big game fishing a year or two ago 1 found that “ tiie tobaccQ of the country,” as the Maorilanders call it, contains surprisingly little nicotine. The manufacturers toast it (having installed special machinery for the purpose;, with the result that so much of the nicotine is eliminated that what remains is negligible. Both flavour and bouquet are delightful. No wonder this tobacco finds so much favour with smokers in the ‘ Britain of the South’.” Thus the testimony in favour of New Zealand toasted tobacco is always growing! The live brands are: Navy Gut No. 3 (Bulldog), Hiverhead Gold, Desert Gold, Cavendish, and Cut plug No. 10 (Bullshead). Smoke them as freely as you will—they are harmless—because they’re toasted.