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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11829, 10 January 1933, Page 6

An old salt was varum? to a group of interested listeners down on lie waterfront at Auckland the other afternoon about “!ang sync. Said he a.s lio filled Ids pipe “llicrc was no smart terbaeconisls’ shops in them days in our ‘Queen City.’ li on , wanted haeev you had to go to on<; 01 the general'stores what sold everyfrom a needle to an anchor. Plug"'it was. Black, powerful strong, too T We coves used to smoke »t ’cause wo couldn’t srot nothing ter. Nowadays you can buy prune ! eut-up* at "jin v terhaeeonists. 31 y Fancv is lor Xow Xealand (ut 1 lug No. Id. full flavoured, f never sampled a terbneeo fit to compare with it. They tell me it’s toasted, and that's what gets the nicotine out of if. It's that pure yon enu smoke a hale of it and take no harm. tins ancient mariner's I’am-v for f.'uj Hon Xu. Ifl is shared hv thousands of old smokers. Pud there are three other brands enuaPy nopular— Xayv Cut. X,, :j. Cavendish, and Ttiverhoad Gold, all toasted. —-lid. In the possession of NTt . Ilef.o \jidois. of Taurangu. is :l Maori relic «U sireat inferust—a carve-1 -orow of : ,n ancient war enneft, about •rr long, which once adorned the fastest- war Canoe on the Pay of Plenty. Many veai's ago an old Maori woman informed the late Mr. Charles liidom that ihe treasure was in ho found i» the swamp on the eastern side of the sclmelhouse at Omnkoroa. After two davs' search the prow was located, and was taken from the swamp practically intact. The carving popsesses meanings which it may not mnv lje possible to interpret.