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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 12, Issue 6 (September 1, 1937.)

praise for new station. — Creche an “Eye-opener.”

praise for new station.
Creche an “Eye-opener.”

If the new Wellington railway station impresses every overseas visitor to New Zealand as it did Mr. Ray Henderson, New York, who left Wellington for Sydney recently, then it should not take long for the city to consolidate its already handsome reputation, says the “Dominion.”

“I do not know of any city with the same population with so dignified, beautiful and well-arranged a railway station,” he said to “The Dominion.” “Except in the largest cities in America we have nothing to compare with it.”

Mr. Henderson visited the creche on the roof of the building. “It's an eye-opener,” he said. “Such places may exist in other countries, but I've been travelling most of my life and I've never seen anything of the kind.”

A prominent Westralian business man, largely interested in the tobacco trade and who has been holidaying in Maoriland, has been telling a daily paper on his return home some of his impressions. “One thing that struck me especially,” he said, “was that all the tobacconists were selling the New Zealand grown and manufactured tobacco which on sampling I found of most excellent quality and as good in fact as any I have ever smoked. The manufacturers' extensive works are at Port Ahuriri, Napier. Here they are producing five brands of tobacco that are in general request, viz., Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead) Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold being for cigarettes. A distinguishing feature of these blends is that they are toasted, which process eliminates the nicotine in them and renders them virtually harmless. Overindulgence in some brands may effect heart or nerves. With ‘toasted’ the smoker runs no such risk. I was told these tobaccos were being freely imitated. Shouldn't wonder. Good things generally are.”*