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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19140, 8 October 1936, Page 9

What, would smokers do i(' the supply of tobacco suddenly "stobped short" —Hko Grandfather's Cloclc—and no more was forthcoming for an indefinite period? The Idea 'may seem fantastic, but (.lie possibility of ation a. stoppage has actually boon foreseen—and provided for—in Rnplahft. It in sin tod that there is "enough tobacco 10 supply, every man and woman in the Kinffdom with an ounce of tobacco every week for a year always in store in the warehouses in the London docks." Happily for Mnonlftiulers, N.Z. is a tobneco-pro-dueinj; country, and there is not the slightest fear of any smoker hnvilig to no short, for the supplies of "toastoil" (the real toasted) are practically inexhaustible, In fact, the manufacture of Cut Plus No. 10 (Istilißhend), Cavendish, Navy Cut No. .". ([btlldoK), Uivcrhead Gold, and Desert (.'old now constitutes an important, and rapidly-expanding industry affording steady employment to many hands, while the growth of the raw material is found a profitable side-lino to not. a few men on the land. The fame of this tobacco iis spreading beyond these shores.''