THE FRAGRANT WEED.
Smoke Oh! is a veritable luxury in New Zealand, and becomes so, through a ens lorn tax of 3s (id per lb; still it is surprising the amount of money that has been expended in smoke In the sixteen years from 1878 to 1893 inclusive, 18,261,29611b of tobacco passed the customs barricade to afford delight to the smoker. Tho Pahialua limd'l has calculated thai this represents over live millions sterling in money, and assuming that the whole of the tobacco was of the Juno brand, and that each stick was joined to each other, the quantity consumed in Now Zealand would be represented by a black ribbon an inch wide and over 12,105 miles in length. Again, if the lobacco could have been stacked we should have had a solid column of tobacco a yard wide and reaching to a height of over U miles. If wc could calculate the amount of energy that has been necessary to convert this ninss of ! 'bnceii"jntosmoko, wo should probably have many horse power of wasted human force. The colonial is apparently fond of hispipe,andno wonder smoking concerts aro a popular form of amusement,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4815, 3 September 1894, Page 3
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193THE FRAGRANT WEED. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4815, 3 September 1894, Page 3
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