OKSIRVKD VICTORIA CROSS.
, our plpe-amoklngri pioneers were undoubtedly a hardy race. One Has only to picture one or them squatting 1 In a circle or Indian braves taking his turn at the Peace Pipe to vote him the Victoria Cross. Picture the. smeared and reather-. Ed be-dlrtled savages passing round a chunk or dug-out wood packed with pernicious weed, the stem a long, hollow reed (goodness knows when it was new)— S|po< cleaners were unknown. Rich and illcy—eh, wiut? Yes, "those were the good old days." nut we Indnitely prerer the present—a pipe or ttnest briar and a Bouch8 ouch of fragrant. oxpertly-cured Dill's eat tobacco, sweet and cool and mellow. It la great to be able to secure the satisraotion or easily converting to Din's Best those who previously "never could smoko a pipe,'w(Ad,)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 251, 23 October 1928, Page 16
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