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Northern Advocate, 26 October 1935, Page 12

“Old Smoker” writes entertainingly anent “Pipes and Tobacco” in a London weekly. “The finest pipe I ever saw,” he says, “was a Meerschaum, priced at fifty guineas. That was in Vienna. But for practical purposes give me a shilling Cherrywood.” A connoisseur, he discusses various totbaccos, American, Rhodesian, Javanese and Australian, adding: “By the 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 the excessive smoker. I learn that its culture and manufacture now constitute a j great New Zealand industry, and I am not' at all surprised.” The writer omitted to mention that the genuine “toasted” comprises five brands: Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Cavendish. Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold. Known from one end of N.Z. to the other, the fame of “toasted” is spreading far and wide. J 517