“,T think we’ll have it understood that at any bankruptcy meeting in Christchurch I won’t allow smoking.’ Thus Mr Pobertson, Official Assignee.at a recent creditors’ meeting. The lawyers present pleaded that they were allowed to smoke in magistrate’s chambers, and also in the jury-room, but the O.A. stood firm. At last lie compromised. “If you want to smoke very badly,” he said, “I’ll adjourn the meeting for a quarter-of-an-hour.” The lure of the -weed! Well, smoking’s all right! “The one thing needful” is to see that your baccy’s O.K. Of course, as smokers are beginning to realise, the foreign tobaccos are usually very far from O.K. They contain too big a percentage of the deadly nicotine to be , safe smoking. The purest tobaccos manufactured are the toased New Zealand. The toasting (an elaborate process involving the employment of costly machinery rids them of much of 1 their nicotine and gives them their rare bouquet and wonderful flavour. I There are only four brands: Piverhead l Gold, Cavendish, Cut Plug No. 10 and Navy Cut No. 3.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 14 February 1931, Page 5
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