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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5451, 22 July 1929, Page 1

Extract from the log of the marooned “ Southern Cross ’”: Monday, April Sth, "Our tobacco ran out today. We tried to smoke leaves but it was awful.” Only smokers know what that meant! Cast away on a dreary mud flat—tortured with thirst, starving, maddened with fleas, and no tobacco ! When things look black and hopeless, there’s nothing like a smoke! But to experience the calming, soothing, cheering influence of tobacco to the full, it must be pure absolutely. The world’s purest tobacco is that grown and manufactured in New Zealand by the National Tobacco Company, Ltd. (pioneers of the tobacco industry in country). It is the only toasted tobacco procurable. Hence its freedom from nicotine and its famous .flavour and aroma. You can’t smoke other tobaccos habitually with impunity, but you can smoke the National goods all the time and take no harm. There’s a brand for every smoker. “Riverhead Gold” is sweet and mild, “Cavendish” and “Navy Cut” are both medium, and “Cut Plug No. 10” is rich, dark and full-flavoured.*