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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19943, 30 October 1934, Page 9

London’s famous tower, the Monument, built to commemorate the Great Fire, derives an average annual income from sightseers of about £IOOO, representing 80,000 visitors.

“Rum life a tobacconist’s,” confided a Wanganui whiff merchant to a reporter, “got to please everybody and sometimes it’s a tough contract. Yesterday a chap bursts in with: “Give us a pound of toasted Cavendish. Hurry up! Got a train to catch." “Well, d’ye see I’d had a run on toasted Cavendish, and hadn’t a shred left (expecting another consignment to-day). But I didn’t want to lose his custom so I says “sorry I’m clean out of toasted Cavendish, but I’ve something similar which perhaps you’d like better.” “There’s nothing similar to toasted Cavendish, and nothing I’d like better,” he snaps—and bolts out. Whatcher think' of that?” “Very annoying of course,” replied the pressman, “but I think the bloke was dead right. I smoke toasted Cavendish myself, and there is nothing like it. There are other toasted brands, aren’t there?” “Four,” replied the tobacconist, “Cut Plug No. 10 (Bulkhead), Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold—all practically free from nicotine (because they’re toasted, d’ye see), all perfectly harmless, and all best sellers." ....