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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 76, 11 March 1933, Page 4

A well-known Maorilander just returned from a trip Home, visited Birmingham in the course of his travels and was shown at a wholesale warehouse a lot of elaborately carved to-bacco-pipes of allegedly Maori origin. On enquiring the price he was asked w-hether he was “in the trade,” and unblushingly said “Yes!” Of course he isn’t. He merely wanted to get a little “inside information.” Those pipes aro made in Birmingham and get into the curio shops of London and elsewhere where they arc sometimes sold at fancy prices to “collectors.” What a world! It isn’t quite so easy to fake New- Zealand tobacco because of its comparative freedom from nicotine—tho result of *he special purifying process it is put through at the factory, and which eliminates most of its nicotine and makes it safe to smoko to a'ny extent. There are only four brands: Cavendish, Riverhead Gold, Navy Cut No. 3, and Cut Plug No. 10. They are famous, every one of them, for their flavour and matchless fragrance. Of course they are being imitated—every good thing is. Go mind -what you buy!*