CIGARETTE BONFIRE.
DESTRUCTION OF 10,000,000. SURPLUS FROM WAR STORES. (Received August 21, 6.15 p.m.) Smi. LONDON; Aug. 20. The Army and Navy authorities refused 10,000,000 cigarettes which have been in warehouses since 1918. The customs authorities therefore decreed their destruction. The cigarettes would probably have been issued to the troops had the war con tinned. Thoy were burned in the "King s Pipe" at Liverpool, tho name given to the building in which all unwanted tobacco is destroyed in the presence of a customs officer. x Tho process of destruction occupied several days, and constituted a_ record smoke.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19721, 22 August 1927, Page 9
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98CIGARETTE BONFIRE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19721, 22 August 1927, Page 9
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