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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4952, 17 March 1926, Page 2

Great interest is evident in the big £lo'o competition at present running in “Humour.” The competition is a most interesting one, and concerns the unravelling of a jumbled sentence-' There is a' first prize of £'so and nineteen other prizes. “Humour” is not a comic paper, but is, a carefully chosen weekly collection of the world’s leading black and white 'humorfius art a ; nd stories. In days gone by it seemed more than doubtful whether New Zealand would ever produce tobacco really worth smoking. But now, owing to improved methods of culture and manufacture the Dominion is growing tobacco o_f really fine quality, and farmers in districts where it flourishes are finding it more and more worth their while to cultivate It as a sideline. That .there is money in it for the grower is demonstrated by the fact that the average yield of tobacco crop per acre is worth £5O, sometimes more. As for the manufacturers, .they are to b§ heartily congratulated on successfully establishing an industry .which not only already finds employment for many workers but promises to become of immense assistance to agriculturists and a source of our national wealth. The leading brands of these tobaccos are: Riverhead Gold, a pure aromatic of very agreeable flavour; Navy Cut (Bulldog), a medium-flavoured tobacco very popular with smokers ; and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), a fine, full-flavoured variety that has' innumerable friends.*