NEW ZEALAND TOBACCO
PROSPECTS OF INDUSTRY AN AUSTRALIAN'S IMPRESSIONS (By Telegraph—Special to "The Mail") AUCKLAND, This Day. "New Zealand grown tobacco is recognised in Australia as an excellent product, and equal to anything from America." This statement comes from Mr C. Coward, representative of Pacific Tobacco Industries, who arrived by the Maunganui from Sydney. Experiments have been made with a blend of New Zealand and Australian tobaccos, and the product has been regarded as a very good one.
Mr Coward said that his company had more acreage under contract in Australia than the whole area cultivated for tobacco in New Zealand. Cultivation would be a wonderful thing for this Dominion in the next few years. Australians considered investments in the tobacco industry to be very good. There are immense markets in the East which have only been scratched so far, and the demand there will be sufficient to take supplies from New Zealand and Australia for a considerable number of years. Last year Australian private enterprise spent £.50,000 in tobacco growing experiments. His company had been in existence for only nine months. It preferred to buy from the small grower.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 26 March 1930, Page 6
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