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TOBACCO GROWING.

SUCCESS BY DALMATIANS. OX TOUR <JL'M LAND. (By Telegraph.—-Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. At a sitting of the Parliamentary Industries l onim.tieo to-day, the evidence oi .Mr. A. Hams, M.l', lur Waiu-mata, I taken on June 1, waa read. Air. Harris produced a .sample of touacco grown at Henderson, twelve miles from .-iuckland, t>y _\ir. Frainich, a Dalmatian, who tuld : turn he was a very sucoesslul grower of tobacco in his native country, and had. imported seed from there, and planted it at Henderson, vvith higiily satisfactory i results. Mr. Framich assured him that the sample of tobacco he produced was second to none in tLa world. It was grown on what was known as poor gum J land, not far from Mr. Framich's place. ; There was a. block of land belonging to the Crown, formerly gum reserve land, and a suggestion had been made that it should he offered for settlement by soldiers desirous of going in for tobacco I culture. Partially disabled men could carry on the industry with some Government aid.

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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 132, 4 June 1919, Page 4

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TOBACCO GROWING. Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 132, 4 June 1919, Page 4

TOBACCO GROWING. Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 132, 4 June 1919, Page 4

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