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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6844, 25 February 1929, Page 7

“Funny how tastes change in pipe tobaccos,” remarked an Auckland tobacconist to a pressman, the other day. “Formerly the demand was all for the imported, but to-day its New Zealand tobacco that is all the rage, and for every ounce of imported I sell, I dispose of a pound of New Zealand. It certainly is ‘the goods.’ I fancy it’s the toasting of the leaf that mostly accounts for it’s fine flavour and aroma. It’s the only toasted tobacco on the market, so far as I know. Several doctors who are amongst my customers will smoke nothing else. They say there’s so littlo nicotine in it that its bv far the safest to smoke. Well, it must be admitted that those foreign brands often contain a dangerous amount of nicotine. Oh, yes there are several brands of New Zealand. Perhaps I sell more Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog) than anything else, but Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead) full flavour runs it pretty close. Then there’s Itiverhead Gold a mild aromatic, which also has • big sale. But they’re aE good.”