“Oil the voyage to New Zealand,” writes Harold Reeve in “Jottings,” a London weekly, “when a fellow-pas-senger told me the New Zealand tobacco was toasted, I thought he was pulling my leg. But he was right. The New Zealand tobacco IS toasted and a wonderful difference it makes! This same tobacco is the finest I ever smoked, ft’s sweet and mellow, with a delicious flavour, and it smells as good as it tastes. Toasting, does that —aye, and more, because it extracts the nicotine from the leaf, so that you can smoke any amount of it without fear of consequences. There are no consequences! I don’t know any other tobacco of which that caii he said. Most of the American brands are rather rank with nicotine, and quite unsafe to smoke constantly. As long as I lived in New Zealand, I smoked toasted tobacco. It is unique.” Here are the six brands of this tobacco: Desert Gold, Riverhead Gold, Navy Cut No. 3, Pocket Edition, Cut PlugNo. 10 and Cavendish Mixture, also Riverhead and Desert Gold tailormades. All toasted, and no sore (throat, no cough! l x
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 40, 27 November 1945, Page 5
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