Round the Horn in a wintljammer! Not often can anyone make such a voyage nowadays, but Mr. Jack Thode (a popular Auckland yachtsman) shipped aboard the old "Grace Harwar" at Auckland last May, and had a memorable trip. What with had weather, mountainous seas, hard work, a'nd real peril the voyage was full of thrills. Falmouth was reached 134 days out. When nearing the English coast Mr. Thode's birthday eventuated and he writes: "For a birthday treat I smoked the last of my New Zealand tobacco" The last? New Zealand smokers will sympathise! Mr. Thode doesn't mention the brand he favoured, but it was prohably Cut Flug No. 10 (Bullshead)— a l'ich full-flavoured baccy and an immense favourite with sea-going folk. It is one of the four noted N.Z. toasted tobaccos, the others being Navy Cut No. 3, (Bulldog), Cavendish and Riverhead Gold. T-hey are all of ex'traordinarily fine quality — and quite harmless, because they are toasted so contain hardly aiiy nicotine. They are fecognised as ahout the purest tobaccos exant.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 587, 19 July 1933, Page 7
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