TOBACCO GROWING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18116, 5 June 1919, Page 2

TOBACCO GROWING.

WORK FOR RETURNED SOLDIERS. [Pm Pres* Association.] WELLINGTON, June 4. At the sitting of the Parliamentary Industries Committee to-day, the evidence of ALr A. Harris, M-P. .for Waitomatn, taken on, June 2, was read. MHams produced a sample of tobacco grown at Henderson, twelve miles from Auckland, by Fvamick, a Dalmatian, who told him that ho was a very successful grower of tobacco in bis native country, and had imported tho seed from there and planted it at Her.dor-t son, with highly satisfactory results. l Frainiek assured him that the sample of fcob.aeco he produced was second to none in the world, and was grown ovS what was known «s poor gum land. Nob far from Frnmick’s plhce there was a. block belonging to the Crown formmgl a g”ifi reserve, and the suggestion hndi been made that it should be opened for so’diers desirous of coins in for tobacco culture. Partiaßv disaWnd , men could carry on the industry with «ome Government aid- .