TOBACCO WORKERS
(Australian Press Association.)
SYDNEY, April 30.
Giving evidence before the Federal Select Committee into* the Australian tobacco' industry, Mr J. H. Walker, the Secretary of the Tobacco Workers’ Union, described the Australian grown tobacco leaf as being distinctly inferior, and said that if the public were forced to smoke it by reason of a prohibitive tariff on imported leaf, the consumption of tobacco would fall by fifty per cent. He said that only a mere .handful of the Australian growers were producing a first grade leaf. Mr H. Minnins, another Union Official, said that the Australian tobacco leaf was very hard to' work. It did not hold its condition or remain pliable.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1930, Page 2
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114TOBACCO WORKERS Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1930, Page 2
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