NELSON TOBACCO.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 28, 3 February 1936, Page 4

NELSON TOBACCO.

TRIAL LONDON SHIPMENT. GUARANTEED PRICE EXCEEDED. Messrs'. Buxton and Company have received a report from the Department of Agriculture that the trial shipment of Nelson-grown tobacco leaf forwarded to London by the Port Bowen sold for 1/3 per lb sterling. Full reports will follow by mail. Interviewed regarding the report, Mr. F. O. Hamilton, director of the firm, explained that 64 tierces of tobacco leaf, varying in weight from 9001b to 13001b, were sent to London t9 be sold through the High Commissioner. The experimental shipment was sent under a Government guarantee of 1/ per lb. Until details of the sale arrived it was not known whether the tobacco was Sold as a whole or whether the price was an average one or not. It was the first shipment of any size from the Nelson district, and comprised leaf which was over and above that grown under contract for New Zealand companies. The price of 1/3 sterling would cover the guarantee, and a further payment would be due to growers who supported the shipment. It was usually the case With trial shipments of produce that a loss resulted, and without seeing details and report on the quality of the leaf, it appeared that ths price returned on this shipment was satisfactory-