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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5466, 26 August 1929, Page 4

New Zealand Traffic Returns for the period ending July 20, 1929, show 496,493 passengers carried as against 553,875 for the corresponding period of 1928, a decrease of 57,382. The road motor service figures were 232,626 and 203,353, an increase, of 29,273. Revenue showed a decrease of £109,220 3s 7d. from £596,420 15s 9d to £487,200 12s 2d. At an inquest down south, the other day it appeared that deceased (death attributed to heart trouble) was a heavy smoker and accustomed to consume an ounce a day. His doctor considered this excessive, but thought the quality of the tobacco was* to blame as well. “You can’t,” he said, “go on smoking these imported tobaccos, practically all of them loaded with nicotine, without paying the penalty some time.” The coroner agreed. Said he couldn’t understand why people would so often smoke poisonous foreign tobaccos when he had here in Nev/ Zealand perhaps the purest brands in the world, and quite safe smoking. He was referring to the tobaccos grown and manufactured in the Dominion by the National Tobacco Co. (pioneers of the N.Z. tobacco industry). Safe smoking they certainly are, and their comparative freedom from nicotine is due to the toasting of the leaf. This not only renders them harmless, but develops flavour and aroma. Popular brands : Riverhead Gold (mild), Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog—medium), Cavendish (medium), and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead—full strength).*