Page 13 Advertisements Column 3

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19985, 18 December 1934, Page 13

A queer substitute for a tobacco-pipe is in use by a tribe of blackfellows in Central Australia. They dig a hole and deposit some smouldering tobacco leaves at the bottom, then carefully fill up the hole leaving a little channel communicating with the surface. Then the smokers take it in turn to lie flat on their tummies and inhale the smoke as it emerges. Ingenious, isn’t it? But New Zealanders prefer a briar, charged—for choice —with “toasted New Zealand.” That is smoking de luxe, if you like! The flavour is exquisite, the fragrance enthralling—while the toasting to which this tobacco is subjected frees it of almost all its nicotine—that deadly stuff!—thus the smoker may indulge to his heart’s content without running the smallest risk! Repeated attempts to imitate the five toasted brands. Navy Cut No 3 (Bulldog), Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Cavendish, Desert Gold and Riverhead Gold, have all failed miserably. These same brands cannot bimitated for the simple but sufficien reason that they are inimitable