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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18068, 20 April 1933, Page 4

“When I was young, and belter] looking tlian lam now,” remarked aj speaker at a Wellington smoko concert, "I was engaged to bo married, and my fiancee (a confirmed smoker of cigarettes herself), was always asking mo why I wasn’t smoking. Gentlemen, I didn’t because I couldn’t! (Laughter.) But I pretended that I could. I said I smoked a pipe, but made all sorts of excuses for failing to produce it. Well, one evening my intended presented me with a fine briar. Seeing I was cornered I accepted a fill from her father’s tobacco-jar (strong stuff!) in his absence, and tremblingly lit um In JO minutes I had had more than enough—and hurriedly left the room—just in time! (Laughter.) However, I'vo been a smoker for years now. 1 learned on Riverhcad Gold. It’s toasted, and like the other New Zealand tobaccos (Navy Cut No. 3, Cavendish, and Cut Plug No, 10), it’s practically free from nicotine. The toasting does it! I smoke New Zealand tobacco, gentlemen, because I can’t get any that is better —or half as good,” (Applause.)*