BOOKMAKER'S AGENTS FINED.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20214, 17 April 1931, Page 6

BOOKMAKER'S AGENTS FINED.

- (miss association TfueaaAM.j WELWNQTON, April 16. Annie MoArtlnir, aged 36 years, was fined £<3o for carrying on » bookmalfing business as an accent. Richard Goqdohild, aged 29, a billiard marker, wae fined &o for a similar offence. 1

cientiv to enable it. to be cut without brsaHlng. • .The leaf passes through the cutting :?nd drying machines on its way to the •cigarette maehines/ IJere it Is wrapped in papers specially imported from,. Eng. and: emerges as a finished eiga'r* ette,' cut .to the required length and with the die bearing the name 01 its brand* . Prom 1 here it goes to' tbe packing machine, where, nntvnched by hand, it is made-up into foil and ti*?ue packets, containing +0 IS cigarettes each. Another maehine slips the foil packet into its cardboard cover, complete with coupon or card, ■ Then expert hands place the. packets into the tin contain* erg; each of whieh contains 500 cigarettes, ■ , - - ? , , - The actual' manufacture of smoking 'tobaeco is much the name as that of .cigarettes,. The blending is. oarried out with'-' the "same scrupulous care, but every. 2oz tin or loz packet, haa to be weighed by hand.

Tin Printing Work.' v Tobacco, production in tKe Dominion has found work "for a number of other local industries. Some of the finest work done by Alexander Harvey and Sons, Limited, is ,its printing of tins for Vf, P. and H. 0. \yfils, Limited, the Dominion Tobaeeo Company, and the National Tobacco Company., The printing oi coupons, cigarette cards, and all packet's is done in the Dominion, and an excellent example of colour printing has been provided- in tho ""Three Castles" Book of New Zealand birds, Tbe tbbaeco industry is called on to bear heavy 'taxation. On every packet p£ cigarettes sold for 8d or 9d the average tax" is over 33d a packet. The industry, has made wonderful pro* fress in a comparatively short poriod. xperimeuts in'the growing and blending of ISew Zealand leaf are constantly being*carrisd out, and there are more' than a few who look.forward confidently to the day when the Dominion may Tiave a large expert trade in tobacco. ' .