INFERIOR TOBACCO
SMOKERS DISLIKE LOCAL LEAF, WITNESS SAYS AUSTRALIAN INQUIRY SYDNEY, Wednesday. The secretary of the Tobacco Workers’ Union, Mr. J. H. Walker, gave evidence today before the Federal Select Committee which is inquiring into the Australian tobacco industry. He described the Australian-grown leaf as distinctly inferior. the public was forced to smoke 'his tobacco because of a prohibitive tariff on the imported leaf, the consumption of tobacco would fall 5(/ Per cent., said witness. Only a mere handful of growers were producing first-grade leaf. Mr. H. Ninnis, another union official, said Australian leaf was very hard to work, it did not hold its condition, nor did it remain pliable.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 960, 1 May 1930, Page 9
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