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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21646, 6 May 1940, Page 11

A fine specimen of a carved tobacco pipe of genuine Maori workmanship was knocked down in a Wellington auction room the other day for 15/-. A bargain. There are plenty of carved pipes of allegedly Maori make about. Most of ’em were made in Birmingham. The genuine article is scarce, and worth money. Pipe carving is becoming a lost Maori art. Fortunately there’s plenty of New Zealand tobacco, though! And it’s not only of extraordinarily fine flavour, sweet, cool and fragrant, but unlike the foreign brands is practically tree from nicotine, so that you can smoke it all day long and feel no ill effects. Tills is due in part to the soil in which it is grown, and in part to the toasting of the leaf which process not only largely helps to eliminate the nicotine but develops flavour and bouquet. This tobacco is produced by the National Tobacco Co. (pioneers of the N.Z. tobacco industry). Ask for “Riverhead Gold” and “Desert Gold” (mild), “Cavendish" (medium). "Navy Cut No. 3” (medium), or "Cut Plug No. 10" (full strength). Absolutely safe, because of the toasting