“Wild Oats,” the attractive title of a book by Eric Muspratt, is good reading. Amongst his adventures was a trip round the Horn, before the mast, in one of the old “windjammers.” Half-way Home tho ship run out of tobacco—nml consternation reigned iu the i'o’eas tie. One day the bosun, rumaging in his old sea chest, found a. longforgotten packet, of cigarettes and offered them to his shipmates at sixpence each! They were snapped up before you could say “wink!” Another time (when ashore) Eric had to go without lobacco for several weeks. Picture his joy when he had his first smoke after that! Btay at-homes who have never had to go without, tobacco for a single day don’t realise their luck! Here in New Zealand you con get the finest, tobacco manufactured — Out-Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Navy Cut No. 3 (Bull-dog), Cavendish, Biverhead Gold and Desert Gold—at the nearest tobacconist’s shop, and they’re not only famed for flavour and aroma, but practically free from nicotine because they’re toasted. There's enjoyment in every whiff!
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 99, 28 April 1941, Page 7
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