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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 December 1934, Page 8

Auckland “Herald” recently published an extract from an issue of fifty years ago dealing with the local industries of that time and concluding with the words: “We are beginning also ot grow tobacco.” Apropos of that an old Auckland identity well remembers the early attempts to produce smokeable tobacco in Now Zealand, including both “plug” and “cutI up.’’ The former, he says, was so moist and soft you could bend a thick plug double with the fingers, while the cup-up was “also very crude and lacking in flavour.” Since those distant days the industry has gone ahead by leaps and bounds, and our famous toasted brands are as far superior to the original ones as smart tailor-made suits are superior to cheap “slops,” with the result that “toasted” is now in universal demand. And no wonder, for owing to the comparative absence of nicotine in it it is quite harmless while the quality is equal to the best imported. Five brands only of this incomparable tobacco: Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Cavendish, Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold.—Advt.