They were swapping "mean man" stories aboard the Rotorua express the other day. Presently the man in the corner said: "I was travelling from Lyttelton to Wellington awhile ago. In the smokeroom after dinner a well-dressed stranger asked me for a "fill." I handed him my brand new pouch. Later, feeling inelined for a whiff myself, I ventured to remind this ehap that he had not returned my poueh. I-Ie had the nerve to tell me he had given it baclc 'long ago.' A barefaced lie, of course. But I eouldn't prove it. The pouch was full of New Zealand toasted tobaceo. I smoke nothing else. There's 110 tohacco like Cut Plug No. 10. And as I eouldn't get any on the boat, I had perforce to wait for my next smoke till I got ashore. Doesn't always pay to be too obliging^. does it?'.'
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 416, 28 December 1932, Page 6
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145Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 416, 28 December 1932, Page 6
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