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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4944, 26 February 1926, Page 3

The annual, cleaning of drains on the ffauraki Plains has now been started in earnest by employees of the Lands Drainage Department and the Horahia Drainage Board. Particulars of the excursion train from Frankton and intermediate stations to Waihi on Sunday next, 28th inst., are advertised in this issue. The old pioneers who came out to New Zealand in the Ibng, long ago little; dreamt, as they shredded .the imported black plug the • storekeepers used to sell, that the land of their adoption would one day produce fine tobacco of its own, and in some respects actually superior to the best imported. But sb it is. The industry is only in ita infancy as yet But it promises to develop into a source of our National wealth—a point of tremendous importance ,to the struggling settlers on the poverty-stricken gum lands of the North which, poor as they are, will yet grow' splendid tobacco. \ If but a fraction\of .this barren land, so rich in tobacco-growing possibilities, were devoted to the cul-ture-of the “weed” it would mean the ultimate enrichment of the Dominion. The local article is much appreciated by those who had to give up smoking foreign tobaccos because ■ o| the excess of nicotine, which affected their health. Try Riverhand Gold, mild; Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium.; or Cut Plug No 10 (Bulls- , headh full.* • \ ■■ ■