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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 121, 23 May 1940, Page 2

“ They’ve got a crowd to night,** said tho husband, listening to a radio concert. “Don’t you believe it,’* said hio cynical darling wife. “Just half as many as you think. They’re only clapping with both hands.’* ‘Old .Smoker’* writes entertainingly anent Pipes and Tobacco” in a London “The finest pipe I ever saw, * he says, “was a Meerschaum, priced at fifty guineas. That was in Vienna. But for practical purposes give mo a shilling Cherrywood. ’ ’ A connoisseur, ho discusses various tobaccos, American, Rhodesian, Javanese, and Australian, adding; “By tho way, the New Zealand tobacco merits special mention. I recently had an opportunity of sampling it. The flavour is excellent, and the bouquet quite exceptional. Moreover, it is unique in one respect; it undergoes a complicated toasting process at the factory which rids it of most of its nicotine and thus renders it harmless even to tho excessive smoker. I learn that its culture und manufacture now constitute a , jreat New Zealand industry, and I am • lot at all surprised. *> The writer imitted to mention that tho genuine ‘toasted** comprises five brands: Navy ’u No. 3 (Bulldog), Cut Plug No. 10 Bullshead), Cavendish, Riverhead Gold md Desert Gold. Known from one end > f N.Z. to the other, the fame of ‘toasted” is spreading far and wide.