, "Wherever you go in Now Zealand," writes Oolonol Ghasonioro, in a popular London woekly, "you'U find tho tobacco of tlio country on salo. Kvon tlio 'wayhaok' country storekeepers keep it in stoclc. Its popularity is easily aooouutod i for. Allhongh quite modcrate in price it's roally as good as it's 'eraoked up to be.' The tobaeeo plant flourislios in vnrious parts of t lie Dominion, and. inany a nian on tho land fmds it. a, profitahle side.line to oultivato hooauso tho dricd leaf commands a high price por ton and is in steady domand. New Zealand tobaeeo has won the good opinion of visiting experts, and eontaining hut little nieotine„. it is safer to smoke tlian perhaps any otlier tobacco. You can indulge ad. lib. without fear of o()iisequenees. This they tell me, is owing to the toasting of the leaf, wliieli proeess appears to work wonders." Golonel Chasemore refers to the four brands ro familiar to Maovilanders: Navy Out No. 3, Riverhead Gold, Cavendish, and Cut Plug- No. 10.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 400, 8 December 1932, Page 4
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