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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXXII, Issue 2764, 19 August 1931, Page 7

One of the passengers on the “Malolo.” on her last pleasure cruise, has -been contributing some impressions of the .trip to a New York journal. He was charmed with Maoriland, and makes special reference in one of his articles to New Zealand tobacco. “By the -way.” he says, “I was astonished to find such excellent tobacco on sale everywhere. It is New Zealand grown and manufactured, and is rea’ly splendid quality, one of its chief being that it is’almost entirely free from nicotine, and therefore, I suppose, the purest and most wholesome tobacco the world produces. This is because the leaf is toasted, and that extracts the nicotine poison as if by magic’. You' can smoke this beautiful tobacco as freely as you please. It is quite safe.” The writer might have added that there are only four brands manufactured: Riverhead Gold, Navy Cut No. 3, Cavendish, and Cut Plug No. 10. Of course there are imitations! This is the penalty every good thing lias to pay for its popu-, larity!* ;