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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4935, 5 February 1926, Page 2

During the year ended December 31, 1925, 692 cases of explosives were received and 625 issued at the local explosives magazine, the storage fees amounting to £46 9s 4d. For the previous) year the figures were 577 cases received and 519 issued, the fees being £32 9s. If the average man were cast away on a desert island and compelled to lead a Robinson Crusoe existence, his. first thought (after the food and water problem was solved) would be: “How can I get something to smoke?” The 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 “weed”’ are on the market. They, come from, many lands, 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, whrfch won’t grow ordinary' crops, grow splendid tobacco, a matter of the greatest importance to meni on the land up there, because the: average yield of leaf is worth £5O per acre, and the industry promises to> become a source bf national wealthThe local article is much appreciated by those who had to give up smoking: foreign tobaccos because of the excess of nicotine, which affected thier health. Try Riverhead Gold, mild ; - Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium; or Cut Plug No. 10 (Bulls head), full.*