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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 206, 16 September 1937, Page 14

"Are men or women the best judge?. of tobacco?" queried the roporter. The tobacconist lit a cumrut te. ' " Why, men, of course," he said, "but some' women Jtnow whnt's whut. W'hou a man strikes a brqnd' he likes it's'generally for keeps. Why one of my "regulars" has been smoking Cut Plug No. 10 for twenty years and another has been puff-ing Navy Cut No. 3 for nigh as long. Women aren't like that as a rule. They '11 go for anything now, and a neat tin with a 'pretty' picture on the lid usually fetclies them." "Those brands you've named are 'toastcd' aren't they?" "That's right, and they're about the pick of tho basket if you ash me. They're for the pipe, same as Cavendish (another linc brand). The other two toasted blends, Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold are cigarette tobaccos, very popular with the roll-your-own brigade. We sell any quantity of all five brands. Hardly any nicotine in toasted, one reason why it's so popular." The scribe "made a note of it" before he vanished. He'd got an "iteni.'""