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Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1937, Page 2

“Do you know New Zealand produce s the most excellent tobacco ?” writes “Lone Hand’’ in the “Peoples Journal.” “It was the ship’s doctor on the run out, who told me, but when he said this tobacco was “toasted” I reckoned he was pulling my leg. I soon tound it was true, after I landed though ; toasted it is, and that’s one reason why it’s so popular in the “Britain of the South.”' “But why toast it?” you may ask, “and what difference can that make?” .Toasting (a rather complex process), makes all the difference. It extracts the nicotine from the leal and thus makes it pure and wholesome, besides helping to give it its beautiful flavour and very fine aroma: I liked this tobacco so much .1 got to prefer it to any other, and so, I quickly discovered, do most New Zealanders. Ton may be interested to know there are .five brands: Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Cavendish, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog). Biverhead Gold and Desert Gold. The- two* latter, by the way, make splendid cigarettes. —A ivl.