BRITISH SMOKERS
WORLD DEMAND FOR PETROL LIGHTERS British cigarette and pipe smokers are using more matches because of the very large number of peitrol lighters now being sent overseas) to help pay for the war. Recent months have seen a phenomenal increase in the overseas deimancl for British lighters, both of the mechanical and the thumbwheel types. Australian importers have asked for the entire output of one British manufacturer. But they had to be content with a share, for supplies were going to Canada and Newfoundland, Tndia, Burma and Ceylon, New Zealand, South Africa and Nyasialand, British West. Africa, S'outfe America, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Aden, Malaya nad China, Portugal and the Colonies, and Spain. Only the other day a shipment of British-made lighters went into the Straits of Gibraltar for the tobacconists of Tangier.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 125, 4 July 1941, Page 3
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135BRITISH SMOKERS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 125, 4 July 1941, Page 3
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