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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5062, 8 December 1926, Page 2

A concert party has, been formed in Turua. At a meeting last week which Was attended by twenty persons desirous of taking p'Uirt it was decided to stage a, nigger minstral show early in the new year. An English tourist while “doing” the Waikato recently was surprised and disgusted to notice so many Mabri women enjoying their pipes. On his return to Auckland he mentioned the matter to an old coloniist, remarking that it was a sure sign of the degeneracy of the Maori race when their women smoked pipea. Said the New Zedlander: “Well, if that is so,'the Irish women pf the working class must have been degenerating for a good while, because I remember seeing them smoking clays in Dublin when I was a boy.” The tourist said no more. There is nothing wrong with pipe smoking for man or woman so long as the right tobaco is used. Choose a brand as free from nicotine as you can. That’s all. Our New Zea-land-grown tobaccos contain only a ’ trifling percentage of nicotine, and you can’t beat them for flavour and aroma. You can smoke them for hours, and they won’t do you any harm. Ask for Riverhead Gold, mild ; Na?y Cut (Bulldog), medium ; or Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullhead), ful 1 strength.*