TOBACCO TRADE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 183, 4 July 1936, Page 11

TOBACCO TRADE

SUCCESSFUL SHIFAIENT

Per Press Association

NELSON, July 3. A meeting of tobacco-growers, convened by the Nelson Provincial Tobacco Growers’ Association, was held at Riwaka, when Mr F. O. Hamilton, director of Buxton and Co.. Ltd., submitted details concerning the marketing of a trial shipment of export tobacco leaf forwarded to London la6t season. These showed satisfactory results, and indicated a brighter outlook for growers. Air Hamilton said the shipment of New Zealand tobacco leaf bad been entirely experimental, and on the whole the reports received were, lie thought, flattering, particularly as it was an initial shipment. After the matter of export for the 1936 season had been further considered, tt was decided to endorse the principle of export and to recommend thnt the Government and the Tobacco, Board be requested to give both financial and all other assistance possible to establish firmly the leaf on the English and other markets and thus prevent a promising industry receding again to the 1934-35 position. It was resolved strongly to object to the suggested levy of Id per lb on leaf exported until tlie expiry of the three-vear agreement of the association, E. Buxton and Co., and the Government made prior to the Act coming into opeiation.