EMPIRE-GROWN TOBACCO.
CONSUMPTION IX BRITAIN. In 1!>21 Britain imported 165,921,0091 a nf raw tobacco leai from America, T.lOkCotSilb. from thx> Nynsaland Protectorate, from British India, 10,312,1201b from, other- s sources. In a • recent period it was found* ; that tho actual consumption of .Empire- - ■ grown, tobacco in Britain waa 6 per cent.' of ] tho total. Since September, 1919,' tobacco cultivation in tho Kmjiro has been, eacouraged- by the preferential dnty of Svesixths of tho 6s 2d per. lb charged by th« Customs on .raw -tcbacco -entering BriUia . from foreign, countries, Mr. Churchi!! ha* further encouraged this'youngr industry .by j proposing that'the prcfercnco'ihbuld' Be oacfourlh instoid of one-sixth". • Tneio : '»re •imTnenso territories in .Nyascland and" Canada, suitablo to; tobacco growinij.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18413, 20 June 1925, Page 12
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118EMPIRE-GROWN TOBACCO. Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18413, 20 June 1925, Page 12
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