GOOD FUTURE FOR NEW ZEALAND TOBACCO

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 182, 30 April 1936, Page 10

GOOD FUTURE FOR NEW ZEALAND TOBACCO

Experimental Shipment ENGLISH EXPERTS PRAISE QUALITY Bv Telegraph.—Press Association. Nelson, April 29. According to expert opinion in England, last year’s trial export shipment of Nelson-grown tobacco leaf compared well with the best sent to England from other Empire tobacco-producing countries. The opinion was expressed that if the quality was maintained there should be a good future for leaf grown in New Zealand. That information was given at a general meeting of the Nelson Provincial Tobacco Growers’ Association, held at Motiieka, when Mr. F. O. Hamilton reported on the export shipment. He was sorry there had been delays in securing final reports of details of sales in London. However, at an early date he would ask growers who were interested to meet him. Some of the growers appeared as if they had not complete confidence in their product, and he hoped the report by the authority in England would make growers and growers’ representatives on the Tobacco Control Board feel that they represented a worth-while industry. Mr. Hamilton added that at the present time the money from the sale of the export shipment was in New Zealand and was being held pending a decision of how it should bo distributed. The speaker said he had been satisfied with the prices realised, but if the sale had not been made so hastily the price would probably have been better, as the Nelson shipment was sold with a trial shipment from North Auckland. Mr. Hamilton pointed out that last year it was decided to ship 100,0091 b., but only 70.0001 b. was made available. Some of the tobacco which should have gone to England was “boot-legged” to people who should not have got it. When the 70,0001 b. .vas sold the buyers wished to know where the othqr 30.000 lb. was. The buyers then cabled that they wanted all that could be sent, and the'latest communication was evidence that the leaf was "f good quality.