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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18216, 18 March 1929, Page 9

“Funny how tastes change in pipe I tobaccos.” remarked an Auckland tobacconist to a pressman, the other day. “Formerly the demand was all ior the imported, hut to-day it's New Zealand tobacco that’s all the rage, and for every ounce of imported I sell. 1 dispose of a pound of New Zealand. It certainly is ‘the goods.’ I fancy it’s the toasting of the loaf that mostly accounts for its fine flavour and aroma. It’s the only toasted tobacco on the market, so far as 1 know. Several doctors who arc amongst mv customers will smoke nothing else. ‘They say there’s so little nicotine in it that it’s bv far the safest to smoke. Well, it must be admitted that- those foreign brands often contain a dangerous amount of nicotine. Oh, yes. there are several brands of New Zealand. Perhaps I sell more Navv Cut’ No. 3 < Bulldog) than anything else, but Cut. Plug No. 10 (Bulishead), full flavour, runs it pretty close. Then there’s Riverhoad Gold. a mild aromatic, which also has a big sale. But they’re all good.” ...