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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32412, 27 March 1944, Page 7

“Do you know New Zealand produces the most excellent tobacco? writes “Lone Hand” in the “People s Journal.” “It was the ship’s doctor on the run out who told me, but when he told me this tobacco was ‘toasted I reckoned he was pulling my leg. I soon found it was true, after I landed, though, toasted it is, and thats one reason it’s so popular m the Britain of the South.’ ‘But why toast it?’ you may ask, ‘and what difference can that make?’ Toasting (a rather complex process) makes all the difference. It extracts the nicotine from the leaf and thus makes it pure and wholesome,’ besides helping to give it it’s beautiful flavour and very fine aroma. I liked this tobacco so much I got to prefer it to any other and so, II quickly discovered, do most New Zealanders. You may be interested to know there are six brands: Cut P!ug No 10 (Bullshead), Cavendish, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Riverhead Gold and Pocket Eidtion. The three latter,