“He was seated on a bench beneath a shady tree, in the grounds', when T met him,” writes a visitor to one of Auckland’s homes for the homeless. "I’ve been an inmate of this place for years,” he. told me, “and I often sit here thinking of old times, and old mates dead and gone. Yes. I’m lonely, hut” (brightening up), “I still have my pipe!” Before we parted T gave him n tin of New Zealand tobacco 1 chanced to have with me. You should have seen his delight! "They serve out tobacco here once a, week.” lie said, “but it’s not Cut Plug No. Ift! Thank you a thousand times, sir!” T left him quite happy—for the time beirig—but fear he has not too much happiness now, poor old chap.” Smokers don’t need to be reminded that Cut Plug No. 10 (Bull shear!) is one of the five famous toasted brands, the others being NaVy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog). Cavendish', I'tiverhead Gold and Desert Gold. They are as delidbus as th4y are harmless. Toasting frees them of their nicotine,*
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18588, 24 December 1934, Page 11
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181Page 11 Advertisements Column 3 Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18588, 24 December 1934, Page 11
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