Story: Māori smoking, alcohol and drugs – tūpeka, waipiro me te tarukino

Three children sit amidst a healthy tobacco crop being grown at Jerusalem on the Whanganui River in the early 1900s. The tobacco was for community use – attempts to export the crop were not successful. Cultivation of the plant was popularised in the 1860s when Governor George Grey wrote a pamphlet on the topic (translated into Māori in 1867).