Page 4 Advertisements Column 4

Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1926, Page 4

If tlio average man were cast away on a. Desert Island and compelled to lead a .Robinson Crusoe existence, his first thought (after the food aud water problem was solved) would he: “How Can I get something to .smoke ?” Tho craving for tobacco is insistent in the case of 10 men out of every 12, and to satisfy the universal demand hundreds of brands of the “weeds" are on the market. They come from mainlands, one of the latest countries to produce them (in a perfected form) being New Zealand. Strange to say the barren gum lands of the North which won’t grow ordinary crops grow spendid tobacco, a matter of the greatest importance to men on the land up there, l>ecau.se the average yield of leaf is worth £oo per acre, and the industry promises to become a source of National wealth. The local article is much appreciated by those who had to give up smoking foreign tobaccos because of the excess of nicotine, which affected their health. Trv “Riverhead Gold" (mild), Navy Cut (Bulldog) medium, or Cut Plug No. !•:) (Bullshead) full.—Advt.

PRODUCE PRICES. Messrs V.'. AVedtlel and Co. I.td. advise dated london 29th i:!t. ns follows: Danish butter 190 s, New Zealand unsalted 17Ss to ISOs, salted 176 s to 178 s. Market steady. Cheese, white 100 s to 102 s, coloured 104 s to 106 s. Market steady.