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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12538, 27 April 1935, Page 2

Bright and early the other morning, an -$>1(1 Maori woman, wearing a man’s battered felt hat and a. brightly colored; shawl was seated on the steps of a% warehouse in Customs Street, Auckland, calmly smoking a blackened clay pipe. Two smartly dressed laughing girls passed: Said one- “How jjiappv that old thing looks!” “She’s enjoying her afterbreakfast pipe,” said the other. They seemed much iynnsod T wonder, ’ said the first, “what,/kind oi tobacco she smokes—must be” something special, J should say.’’./‘Let’s go hack and ask her,” said Her friend, “just for fun.” So haek.hthev went and asked her The old/dame smiled and said “Cut Plug No. 10,V adding that she always smoked it. lt;is one of the five famous tdastocl tobaccos: Cut Plug No. 10 .(Thillslioad), Navy Cut No. 0 (Bullddg), Cavendish, Riverhead Cold and Desert Gold, and their rare flavnur and delightful frngraiiee appeal to pakeha and Maori alike. 7 / And they have another outstanding merit —they are harmless! It’s the toasting that eliminates the poisonous nicotine! But beware of worthless imitations!