Overheard on the Auckland waterTime; dinner-hour. Lumber to his mate. “At last I felt that bad I seen a Doctor. ‘Where’s yer pipe?’ ’ e sez, so I pulls out the old briar ?’ Faugh, e sez, ‘burn it,—and change yer bacca! Ton been smoking bacca full a nicoteen’ ’e sez, ‘and it’s fair poisoning yer. Never smoke imported bacca while you can get toasted Noo Zealand’ ’e sez, ‘the toasting takes tha nicotine clean out of it, and makes it safe to smoke. Fine smoking it is too l Mow you do as I tell you!’ Well, 1 did. I got some Noo Zealand Cut Plug No. 10, and believe me, it’s the goods.! And as soon as I changed my bacca I got as right as rain!” Excess of nicotine in tobacco often affects, the health of smokers, for unfortunately the imported leaf very oft'en contains an excess of the poison. There’s none, or next to none, in New Zealand toasted. Only four brands—Riverhead Gold, Cavendish, Navy Cut No. 3 and Cut Plug No. 10.— Advt,
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1931, Page 4
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176Page 4 Advertisements Column 7 Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1931, Page 4
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