Soon it wil be quicker to rub two sticks together than to search some New Zealand shops for a match. Which reminds us of the man who tried a cigarette lighter, but ran out of coupons. Also of the too-rapidly growing practice among shopkeepers of making us buy cigarettes or tobacco before we can have matches.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1940, Page 7
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