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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 77, 13 March 1933, Page 2

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-pipcs of allegedly Maori origin. On enquiring the price he was asked whether he was “in the trade,” and unblushing!;, said “Yes!” Of course ho isn’t. lie merely' wanted to get a little “inside information.” These pipes are 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 —the result, of ‘ho special purifying process it is put through at the factory, and which eliminates most of its nicotine and makes it safe to smoke to any 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 tiling is. So mind ttliul you buy!*