OVERTURES TO MINISTER.
RESEARCH IN TOBACCO. RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION. Per Press Association. NELSON, Jan. 29. Hon. D. G. Sullivan received a number of deputations last evening and left this morning to visit the bay districts owing to deputations. The Nelson Tobacco Company requested the early establishment of a tobacco research station in Nelson. The Minister said the growers could rest assured that the Government would not allow the industry to be imperilled in any way, either by outside companies gaining control of the industry or by the importation of foreign leaf. He whole-heartedly supported research, but how it would be organised he could not say lat the moment. The Tobacco Control Board was preparing a plan for the development of the industry and it would shortly be presented to Cabinet. Replying to a deputation seeking the filling of the gap in the railway links in Nelson with the southern system, the Minister said that there were certain things he had yet to look into before expressing an opinion regarding the line. One was the present operating lose. Many motors were carrying goods in competition with the railways; if the Government was to undertake the linking up of Nelson with the South Island system it would have to be assured of 100 per cent, of the traffic.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 51, 30 January 1937, Page 2
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215OVERTURES TO MINISTER. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 51, 30 January 1937, Page 2
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