TOBACCO GROWING IN DOMINION

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22430, 17 June 1938, Page 21

TOBACCO GROWING IN DOMINION

GRANT TO DEPARTMENT FOR RESEARCH DECISIONS OF THE BOARD irassa association telegram.) WELLINGTON, June 16. The business at a recent meeting of the Tobacco Board at Wellington was reviewed by the Minister for Industries and Commerce (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan) to-day. He said that, recognising the value of research to the Industry, the board had some time ago undertaken to make a grant of gd a pound to the Department of Scientific and Industrial, Research in respect of leaf.of the 1935-36 and 1936-37 seasons. The contribution for these two seasons would amount to between £I2OO and £I3OO. Recognising also the value of the continuity of a programme of research, the board decided to ask the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research for an estimate of the amounts which the department would require from the board for research during the three seasons, 1937-38, 193839, and 1939-40. ‘The conduct of a soil survey of the tobacco lands and the potential tobacco lands in the Nelson district, the carrying out of an intensive programme work in relation to mosaic disease, and the establishment of a research station, which was now in hand, are some of the matters of vital importance to the industry with which the board has been concerned and in which it is assisting directly, both financially and otherwise, with a view to ensuring the maintenance of the quality of the leaf and the more effective control of production in relation to demand,” he said. It was decided by the board that manufacturers should be asked to include in their contracts for next season a stipulation that the quantity grown under combined contracts for local manufacture and for export should be ?, relation to kiln capacity. The ooard also decided that growers, both uirectly and through their organisatil® New Zealand Tobacco Growers Federation, and also the manufac.should be asked to co-operate v ll * l the board by seeing that the JJhmitity stipulated in the combined contracts is in relation to kiln capacity, *nn capacity being regarded by the Sfljjpd as being in respect of a kiln by 16 feet, a quantity not more 8000 pounds. Hn« e * S? rc * a * so sou gbt the co-opera-of j e federation, growers gener*ny and manufacturers to see that airoxiea leaf is not in excess of the of the individual grower, beS 6 ., 11 it was there was a danger ‘he quality of the leal might sufrSo oV 16 board would require for the “ season that all applications for gcences to grow should be endorsed tivef lnanu^ac t urer or his representa??Port of leaf the board re!™n?ed its previous decision that wJS effort would be made by the ycajd to maintain continuity of supply London market to foster the uSPft trade. For the purchase of the tho r district where it was grown, Sfßeard was continuing its negotia--22?® , Wlt h the main company conand it was hoped to reach ■“auty soon.