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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 99, 21 April 1933, Page 3

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 whether he was “in the trade,” and Unblushingly replied “yes.” 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 London and elsewhere where they are sometimes sold at fancy prices to “collectors.’ What a world! It isn’t quite so easy to fake Now Zealand tobacco because of its comparative freedom from nicotine —the result of the special purif” ing process it is put through at the factory, 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 Gut Plug No. 10. They arc famous, every one of them, for their flavour and matchless fragrance. Of course they are being imitated—every good thing is. So mind what you buy! 309