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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12704, 8 November 1935, Page 2

They were taming about local industries- in the smoke-room"' of, an Auckland Club the other night. , “1 remember when the first New Zealand tobacco came’ 'on the market, nigh upon half-a-century; ago,” remarked the ancient mariner smoking the Jbig; ,(jherr-ywppd. “the lines included both cut and plug—of sorts —also little smokes called “cigarillos”—just a bit,of a leaf .with a filling of ‘.cutriip,’’’ They had a fair sale —for those days—but the manager (an old ffieiid ’ of' ihirie) told me it was tlie foreign .labels tid’d had printed And stuck oh the .boxes that sold them. No use, lie said, to offer them as New Zealand-made— : no one would have looked atr them!” What a change the, years tiav'e' wrought 1. Today our beautiful New Zealand tobaccos—Cut Plug No. 10 ‘. (Bullshead), Navy. Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Itiverhead Gold arid Desert Gold —require no foreign labels to sell them! They sell at sight, and tlie demarid is “Always growing. Not only is the quality superb but they re barriiless. no matter how freely you indulge. They’re toasted!