A POOR SMOKE
AUSTRALIAN TOBACCO
WHERE THE TARIFF MAY BURN
SYDNEY, 30th' ApriL
(Jiving evidence before the federal Select Committee .inquiring into tlio Australian tobacco industry, Mr. J. 11. Walker, secretary of tlie Tobaceq iWorkers' Union, described ths Aus-tralian-grown loaf as distinctly inferior, and if the public were forced to smoke it by reason of a prohibitive tariff da imported leaf, then the consumption of tobacco would: fall 50 per cent. Only a mere 'handful of growers were 'producing first-grade leaf. • Mr. H. Munis, another union official, said the Australian leaf was very hard to work. It did not hold its condition or remain pliable.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 101, 1 May 1930, Page 13
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105A POOR SMOKE Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 101, 1 May 1930, Page 13
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