"I reckon," said the reporter to the tobacconist, ''that the roll your own game has played old gooseberry with the saies of packefc cigarettesl" "No denying that," replied the whiff marchant, lighting his pipe, "but what we lose on the swings we make up on the roundabout, in other words while the demand for ready-mades is fading out the demand for' Cigarette tobaccos— more espocially Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold, the two branda most wanted — has increased; tremendously, and the quantity of those we sell is simply astonishing. They 're always fresh and moist, d'you see, never stalo and dry like the ready-mades often are. You can tell a cigarette made of eithor by its bouquet. Pure, too, like all the toasted brands. Toasting works the nicoline out of them. And you can roll ton full sized smokes for less than 4d. There are also three genuiuo toasted blend for the pipe — Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Navy Cut No. 8 (Bulldog), and Cavendish, and if there 's anything 1 tf beat them, I haven't-heard-of it."*
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 13, 8 October 1937, Page 15
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