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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4926, 15 January 1926, Page 1

Walking along Kent Terrace, Wellington, on Tuesday night, with his head down to avoid ,the rain, William Bopcock, an elderly man, walked into a motor bus and received such inn juries to his, head that he died in hospital during the night. Sherlock Holmes, the famous detective of fiction, smoked strong black shag tobacco and derived inspiration from it when puzzling over some problem of more than ordinary complexity. Shag is too full-flavoured for many smokers. It contains a lot of nicotine, and excess of nicotine is a bad thing. The habitual use of such tobacco is bound sooner or later to affect the consumer injuriously. Unfortunately, practically all imported tobaccos are heavily charged with nicotine. And in that respect they differ essentially from our New Zealand grown tobaccos, the comparatively small amount of nicotine which constitutes one of their chief recommendations. Also—and this ip important—they are all toasted, and toasting brings out the flavour of the leaf in a most remarkable way. There are several - brands of this popular tobacco. Riverhead Gold, mild; Navy Cut (Bulldog label), medium ; and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bull’s Head), full strength. Bach of them has its merits. That seasoned smoker, Sherlock Holmes, would doubtlessly prefer the last-named *