GROWING TOBACCO.
Among the witnesses examined by the Native Industries Commission was a Mr Charles Harrell, who said that “ tobacco grown in the colonies from the best imported seed will require careful cultivation for a number of years before it becomes thoroughly acclimatised and equal in quality to the leaf produced in the country from whence the seed was obtained. Therefore a considerable time must elapse before the New Zealand planters will be able to shut out the imported manufactured goods or raw leaf. Havana and Florida Havana would grow in favored localities anywhere between the North Cape and the Bay of Islands ; Maryland and Virginia leaf might be successfully cultivated anywhere from the Bay of Islands along the East Coast up to Hawke’s Bay, or perhaps to AVellington ; Pennsylvania seed-leaf could be located in Marlborough, and Connecticut seed in Nelson : Massachusetts seed in Canterbury and part of Otago.
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Patea Mail, 28 September 1880, Page 3
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149GROWING TOBACCO. Patea Mail, 28 September 1880, Page 3
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