THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY.
A former resident of Masterton, w&o is now living in Tarnworth, New-SoutTi Wales, forwards us a-paper containing an interesting article dealing with tlie tobacco industry in Australia. :' This shows that tobacco-growing is forming an part.of the agricultural pursuits of N"ew South Wales and QueensUndi.' Unfbrtuitatißly,/' how*ever, there is a secret in tobaccogrowing that s eems to be known only to Chinamen, and the result is that most of the labour employed in the cultivation of the leaf is alien. The New South Wales Government is now sending experts into the country districts to instruct the farm - labourers, and it ia hoped' that it will be possible shortly to entirely dispense witfi" Chinese labour; There is a splemdid market for the tobacco leaf in Australia, and the industry promises to be of very considerable importance. Is it not time that some of the enterprising farmers in the northern districts, of "New Zealand 7 turned' their attention to tobacco-growing?'
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 14 June 1913, Page 4
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160THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 14 June 1913, Page 4
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