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Evening Star, Issue 25426, 6 March 1945, Page 6

"Do you know New Zealand produces the most excellent tobacco?" writes "Lone Hand" in the ' People's Journal.' " Tfc was the ship's doctor on the run cut who told me, but when he said this tobacco was ' toasted,' I reckoned he was pulling my leg. I soon found it was true, after I landed, though; toasted it is. and that's one reason why it's so popular in the Britain of the South.* ' But whv toast it? ' you may ask, 'and what difference can that make? Toasting (a rather complex process) makes all the difference. It extracts the nicotine from the leaf, and thus makes it pure and wholesome, besides helping to give it its beautiful flavour and very fine aroma. I likes this tobacco' so much I got to prefer it to any other, and so, I quickly discovered, do most New Zealanders. You may be interested to know there are six brands: Cut Plug No. 30 (Bulishcad) Cavendish. Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Riverhead Gold, Desert Gold, and Pocket Edition. The three latter, by the way, make splendid' cigarettes."— [Advt.J