NEW ZEALAND GROWN

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2540, 3 October 1931, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND GROWN

Xglson, a town anl province that constantly by their enterprise anci versatility contradict the slurname of Sleepy Hollow cast upon it very many years ago, is New Zealand s centre for the growing of f:he leaf that makes the palatable smokes for New Zealanders, very few of whom realise what the growing of -tobacco has come to mean to the growers of tne sunny province. The average returns per acre for. the leaf is £IOO and ..some of the farmer/ wire? have mad© a business of it have struck a verity id jl.e goldmine compared with their previous operation#* as producers, l.hq quick and profitable development, in the growing of the leaf that goes into the pipes and cigarette holders is largely due to the handsome manner i„ which the manufacturers provided expert coat off instructors, ad- \ iser s and ‘demonstrators. Iho proof of the success of it he industry 1 e.s m the fact that the manufacturing com panics. which deal with the growers o,i a, contract basis in tlie main, have increased the acreage contracted for from time to time, and. that no less than I*2oo acres are under tobacco in the NeUoon district for the current year. Aly Lady Nicotine has come to SitaV.