RUSSIAN ENTERPRISE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 137, 12 June 1931, Page 10

RUSSIAN ENTERPRISE

SOVIET CIGARETTES SOLD APPEARANCE IN AUCKLAND AUCKLAND, June 1UA. new indication of Russia’s persistent efforts to find additional markets for the flood of manufactures produced under the five years’ plan is apparent in Auckland. Several tobacconists aae selling a line of cigarettes made in Russia. Though Russian tobaVco has been used for many years in cigarettes made by London firms, this is t.ho first time cigarettes actually produced in Russia during the regime of the Soviet have been sold in New Zealand. Recently there was a controversy iu Auckland over the quantities of Russian matches available in Auckland, which were being sold at &a exceedingly cheap price. "Whereas the labels on the Russian matches apparently were designed to disguise, us much as possible, the conntrv of origin, an English narce ho.’lly appearing in lhe trade mark, such a course has not boon followed in Hie design of the cigarette packet. It bears a Russian name and the words, “Made in U.S.S.D..’’ are clearly shown. The. packet provides an evidence of what can be done under the mass production methods applied in Russia. (t. is ornate in appearance, the cigarettes aio attractively prepared, yet the price is not above that of most brands of cheap cigarettes. One purchaser of the cigarettes did not notice the country of origin until he had reached the street. Ho then became aware that he had in his possesion Russian cigarettes, Finnish matches', a French pipe and American tobacco.