“I had rather a trying experience once upon a time,” writes Mr. Robert See-ley in a London weekly. “I was a young new chum, then, one of a party of prospectors in Northern Queensland. One day I wandered away from camp and got ‘bushed’. It was nearly three weeks before they found me, and I had some adventures in the meantime. believe me! On the third day I ran out of tobacco!—Smokers will sympathise! I shall never forget the first smoke I had after I was found!— delightful! But nowadays I find the tobacco I used to smoke when on the wallabi lias lost its savour. Over much nicotine in it. Since coming to Maoriland I have smoked ‘New Zealand Toaster,’ and ask nothing better. I understand its peculiar fragrance, and comparative freedom from nicotine in this incomparable tobacco are due to its being roasted. It is certainly the finest I have ever smoked—and the least harmful.” Mr. Seeley refers to the five famous toasted brands— Riverhead Gold, Desert Gold, Navy Cut No. 3, Cavendish and Cut Plug No. 10, R.P. 29,
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Northern Advocate, 13 May 1939, Page 9
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