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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4990, 21 June 1926, Page 1

Nature generally makes 'compensations. 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, so unsuitable for the growing of ordinary crops, its 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 mild aromatic with a distinctive flavour, Navy Cut (Bulldog) medium strengtn, 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 comparatively little nicotine. The success attending the culture of these tobaccos in what wais formerly regarded as barren country is convincing growers that "there’s money in it.” The yield of leaf per acre represents £5O, and often more.*