I JtewEl The Day f^- 8 , / of the Whalers . “Thar she blows” —the cry of the whaling men —was closely associated with the early history of New Zealand, going back even a good many years before the country became a British possession. In those vanished days the South ' Pacific was teeming with whales; and sturdy whaling ships from England, France and the United States frequently called at the Bay of Islands, Marlborough Sounds, Kapiti Island, Stewart Island and other places around the New Zealand coast. Here the hardy whalers would stretch their legs on shore, and obtain from the , Maoris such provisions as vegetables and pigs, ROLL YOUR as wed as fresh water > w^e many a stalwart young Maori joined the whaling crews and CIGARETTES engaged in the arduous and dangerous work VTITH of chasin 9 th® whales from °P en whale-boats. THE New Zealand Cigarette Tobo€Co wiwsf FINE CUT or COARSE CUT 2 ounces 2/l| • IOIA
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Grey River Argus, 27 April 1942, Page 7
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