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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19694, 28 July 1938, Page 9

When the late .Sir ■!««• Barrio was asked on one occasion which smoke of the clay he considered the best he replied, with a smile, "1 enjoy a pipe at any time, but especially after a hard spoil of writing when one is feeling, perhaps, a little fagged. A smoke at smb. lime is peculiarly soothing, and refreshing." The celebrated author, as is well-known, invented a blend of his own which was put on the market by a. London tobacconist and became famous. Hut a really good tobacco always catches on; witness the overbearing succes of the New Zealand blends: Cut Plug No. 10 (bullshead), Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog) Cavendish, Kivorhoad Cold and Desert Cold. Their super-excel-lence is. of course, mainly due to the splendid fluality of the leaf composing them, but the toasting they undergo at the factory lias also a 10l to do wi.U.i it, for toasting eliminates most of the injurious nicotine in them and helps to give them their delicious flavour and unequalled bouquet. All attempts, to imitate them have failed utterly."