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Opunake Times, 24 February 1939, Page 3

A well-known Maorilandey 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 tobac-co-pipes of allegedly Maori origin. On enquiring the price he was asked whether he was “in the trade,” and unblushiugly said “vcs.” Of course he isn’t. He merely wanted to get a little “inside information.” These pipes are made in Birmingham and get into the curio shops of Condon and elsewhere where they are sometimes sold at fancy prices to “collectors.” What a world I ft isn’t quite so easy to fake New Zealand tobacco because of its comparative freedom from nicotine—the result of the snccial 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 five brands: Cavendish, Riverhead Gold, Desert Gold, Navy Cut No. 3 and Cut Pino- No. 10. They are famous, every one of them, for their flavour and matchless fragrance. Of course they arc being imitated —every oood thing Ts. So mind wbat you buv!