N.Z. TOBACCO
AN AUSTRALIAN OPINION. AUCKLAND, March 20. ‘ “New Zealand-grown tobacco is recognised in Australia as an excellent product, equal to anything from America. ’’ This statement comes from Mr C. (4>ward a. representative of Pacific tobacco industries, who arrived by the Mannganui this morning from Sydney. Ho said that experiments had been made with a blend of New Zealand and Austialian tobaccos and the product had been regarded as a very good one. Mr Coward said that bis company had mole acreage under contract in Australia than the whole of the area cultivated for tobacco in New Zealand. Cultivation would be a wonderful thing for this Dominion in the next few years. Australians considered investments in the tobacco industry to be very good. “There are immense markets in the East which have only been scratched so far,” he continued, “and the output there will he sufficient to take supplies from New Zealand and Australia for a considerable number of years.’’ l.ast year An«t"nlian private enternr’se snent £30,090 in tobacco growing
experiments. His company bad been in existence for only nine months. It preferred to buy from the small grow-
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19300327.2.44
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1930, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
189N.Z. TOBACCO Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1930, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in