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Grey River Argus, 10 December 1928, Page 2

• Nature generally makes compensa tions. Here’s a case in point. The gum country in the North of Auckland is so poor in quality that the soil refuses to lend itself to agricultural operations. Yet this land s 0 unsuit able for the growing of ordinary crops, is splendidly adapted for tobacco culture in proof of which you have only to sample the really fine tobaccos now being manufactured from North Auckland grown leaf. These include “Riverhead Gold” a m ; ld aromatic with a distinctive flavour. “Navy Cut” (Bulldog), medium strength, and “Cut Plug No 10” (Bullshead), full flavour. All these tobaccos are toasted a process that has a good deal to do with their excellence by the way Another of their good points is that they may be smoked with impunity. That is because they contain but com paratively little nicotine. The success attending the culture o f these tobaccos in what was formerly regarded as .barren country is convincing I growers that “there’s money in it.” The yield of leaf per acre represents( £5O and often more.—33.