AUSTRALIAN TOBACCO.
Apparently the oo6t of 'living is not going to be reduced materially by the production of Australian tobacco. The New South Wales Government has placed an expert tobacco-grower upon an irrigated area in the backblocks of the State, and the leaf already produced is stated by- merchants to be of very good quality. The yield has averaged 1201b an acre under adverse oonditions, and the gross return lias been from £56 to £94 an acre. The expert says'that one. family can farm ten acres and produce a orop worth £560, while the expenses after a curing house has been provided will not exceed £6O a year. All this sounds very attractive, but it is a little depressing to learn from the State Minister of Lands that after the grower has received Is a pound for his leaf and the merchant has paid one filing a pound excise duty and 6d for manufacture the consumer is to be charged .6s a -pound. When the industry is, fairly established no doubt an Australian Tobacoo Growers' Association will show cause, why it should have increased Customs protection, and then the ' local price will .mount still higher.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 31 July 1913, Page 4
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195AUSTRALIAN TOBACCO. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 31 July 1913, Page 4
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