‘Less N.Z. tobacco being used’
PA Nelson Tobacco manufacturers were overstocked with raw! tobacco because they were using less New Zealand leaf than they should be, according to the president of the Tobacco Growers’ Federation (Mr J. C. Hurley) yesterday. He was commenting on a statement by the chairman of the Tobacco Board (Mr E. S. Highet) of Nelson, that the manufacturers’ forward ; orders, and consequently ;the growers’ quotas for the • next season, had been reduced and rationalised be-, i cause the manufacturers were overstocked. 'i “Is it any wonder they are I overstocked when their use jof domestic leaf is at an all-; ■ltime low,” Mr Hurley said. i The growing industry was! > extremely worried about the. i increasing volume of imported tobacco, he said. A number of protests have been lodged with the federation, which met in Motueka yesterday to discuss the quotas and their! effects on the growing indus-1 try. i
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