“Forty cigarettes a day?” said the tobacconist to one of those inquisitive reporters, “Well that’s nothing to make a song about. Why, I know & chap that smokes 50, arid arihther chap, an old customer of mine, who smokes 70. Of .course he couldn’t do it arid get away with it if he smoked ordinary cigarettes, but 'this bloke smokes Riverhead Gold—and roils bis own. Yes, Eiverhead Gold is dhe of the five toasted blends arid Desert Gold is another. These are the champion cigarette tobaccos. Y6u smoke si pipe but you use Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog) arid that’s toasted So you know what toasting cari do. I'he other two tOasted blends, Cavendish and Cut Plug 10 (Bullshead) are for the pipe too.” “Don’t know a thing about.cigrirOttes,” said the reporter, “but if the two cigarette blends you mention are as high-grade as my favourite Navy Cut tfo. 3 I reckon they're the goods.” “Sure thing,”, said the tobacconist; “the five toasted blends are the pick of the basket if you ask me.”—Advt.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 December 1940, Page 8
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