WANTED FOREIGN GOODS
While the greater part of the community is endeavouring to stimulate local industry and play some part in restoring prosperity, every now and then there comes an incident that would serve to illustrate a complete lack of faith in our own resources. A striking example came before a well known tobacconist. He was asked by the customer for a box of foreign matches, ' and, with the commendable object of showing preference to the local product, pointed out the latter's superior features. The price of both was the same, but, as the tobacconist said, the local box contained more matches, and, further, these matches were of better quality than the foreign article. Disregarding these quite unanswerable arguments, the customer remained adamant and refused to huy the box maxiufactured in Dunedin. Finally, the justifiably exasperated tobacconist presented him with one.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 170, 11 March 1932, Page 2
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