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Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1932, Page 5

“I never knew New Zealand was a manufacturing country until. I -went there,” writer \1 r Clement Puihall, in “Manufactures,” an English trade journal, “but I soon discovered that* those enterprising Maorilanders arc now producing many lines of really splendid quality, including travelling rugs, blankets, many articles of wearing apparel, malt /liquors, and some of t/h© finest tobacco grown in any country in the world As an old nnoker myself I was keenly interested in this tobacco, and was privileged to see. it being manufactured. Its outstanding merit is that it is practically free from nicotine. The toasting process to which it is subjected works tile poison out of it. So far as I am aware th’s is the-only toasted tobacco. For flavour and f-igrauce it is unequalled.” Mr Purhall is quite right, there is no other toasted tobacco. The four •brands ar@ Kiverhead Gold, Navy Cut No. 3, Cavendish and Cut Plug No. 10. The culture, maturing, manufacture, now constitutes an important and rapidly expanding New Zealand industry.—Ailvt..