TOBACCO INDUSTRY

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 248, 15 July 1932, Page 9

TOBACCO INDUSTRY

Big Increase in Victoria (Bee. July 14, 9.25 p.m.) Melbourne, July 14. At a conference of Victorian tobacco growers, the announcement was made that there are 2300 growers of tobacco in Victoria, and that this year’s crop is worth £1,000,000 compared with £300.000 last year. Of 12 000 acres under tobacco in the Commonwealth, 5000 acres are in Victoria. Sir John Simon, Sir Herbert Samuel, and Lord'Londonderry left Tondon on Wednesday evening by an Imperial Airways plane for Paris, and proceeded thence by train to Geneva to resume their duties as British delegates to th Disarmament Conference. Three nuns, ordered to do penance by cleaning a deep well in a convent, at Laval, France, were overcome by fumes while descending, and fell to the bottom and were killed. Another, going 1 to their rescue, was seriously gassed. -1 Australia’s delegation to the U'F' i teenth Assembly of the League of Na- - tions at Geneva, opening on September j 5, will be Messrs. S. M. Bruce and M . ; , M. Hughes and Sir Donah! Cameron, ; | all members of the Federal House oi Representatives. 1