They were talking about local Industries in tUe smoke-room of an Auckland .Club the other night, “I remember when the first New Zealand tobacco came on the l market, nigh upon half-a-centyry ago,” remarked the ancient' mariner smoking the big eherrywood, "the Hues included both .cut and plug—of . sorts—also little smokes called "cigarillos"—just a bit of leaf with a lllling of ‘cut-up.’ .They had a fair sale—for those days—but the manager (an old friend of mine)' told me It was the foreign labels he'd had printed and stuck on the: boxes that sold them. No use. ho said, to offer them as ' New Zealand made—no one would have look-, ed at them!” AVhat a change the years have wrought! To-day our beautiful New. Zealand tobaccos—Cut Plug No. 10 (Bnllshead). Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Caven : dish, Kiverhead. Gold ond Desert Gold—require no foreign labels to sell them! They sell at sight, and the demand is always growing. Not only is the quality snpcrh hut they’re harmless no matter how freely, you Indulge. Tiieytre (oastcUl . , - ' ■
The Krupp Co. of Essen is' building 700 dwelling-houses tti(s year at a cost of over fSQ^OOfI,
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11867, 6 November 1935, Page 3
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