CIGARETTES TABOO
RESENTFUL ISLANDERS INCIDENT AT PITCAIRN Smoking and drinking are noi vices in the island of Pitcairn. The natives have few modern ideas, according to a visitor. “We made a stay of a few hours at Pitcairn Island on the way out,” said Mr. A. E. Armstrong, of Christchurch, who arrived back from England recently. “Some of the Pitcairn Islanders came cn board with vegetables, honey and fruit, inducing the finest oranges I have ever tasted. “The Pitcairn Islanders are a remote, self-contained community, with very rigid ideas about smoking or drinking. This was proved when one of the passengers, in the goodness of his heart, threw a packet of cigarettes into one of the boats departing for the shore. One of the crew picked it up, and then, seeing what the packet contained, quietly dropped it overboard.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 488, 18 October 1928, Page 15
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139CIGARETTES TABOO Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 488, 18 October 1928, Page 15
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