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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19952, 9 November 1934, Page 3

“I’ve had to chuck many things, owing to the slump,” wrote a Londoner, to a friend in Christchurch, recently, “but there’s one thing I can’t and won’t give up. and that’s tobacco. Amid all my worries and anxieties one friend has remained constant throughout —my pipe! That reminds me, by the way. that our mutual friend S —, of Christchurch, just now, as you know, paying a flying visit to ‘the old dart,’ tells me New Zealand is becoming noted for its tobacco, the special virtue of which, it seems, is the toasting of 'the leaf. S— says that ‘toasted,’ as he calls it, is actually preferred by many smokers (including himself), to the imported, because it contains so little nicotine, being almost free from it. What a triumph for the manufacturers! I take off my hat to them! Their method of nicotine-elimination is surely unique?” This reference to our popular toasted brands: Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Cavendish, Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold, shows that their fame is apparently spreading across the seas