An English tourist while “doing” the Waikato recently was surprised and disgusted to notice so many Maori women enjoying their pipes. On his return to Auckland he mentioned the matter to an old colonist, remarking that it was a sure sign of the degeneracy of the Maori race when their women smoked pipes. Said the New Zedlander: “Well, if that is so, the Irish women of the working class must nave 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 sb 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 ; Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium ; or Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullhead), ful’ strength.* \
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5222, 4 January 1928, Page 3
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177Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5222, 4 January 1928, Page 3
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