“Now that things are looking up again,” said the reporter, “and money’s easier, I suppose business with you is booming!” “Oh, we cant growl ” replied the tobacconist, bi our lines are always wanted. When things are bad chaps smoke because it bucks them up; when things are good they smoke just because they are good. Get, me?" “About how many brands are there?" queried the scribe. “Ask me another,” said the tobacconist, “hundreds, they say.” “Of course, continued the reporter, “the imported lines have the biggest sale?” “Formerly they had,’’ said the tobacconist, “but most smokers prefer “toasted” now. It’s certainly the purest tobacco I know of, to say nothing of flavour and aroma. Safe as houses, too. The toasting gets the nicotine out of it. Imitations? I should smile! But ,as long as you, stick to the five genuine toasted brands, Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullsheadj, Cavendish, Navy Cut. No. 3 (Bulldog), Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold, you can’t go wrong.” The scribe nodded, waved, and hur- . tied off. He’d got an “item”!—Advt.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 August 1936, Page 11
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