SOUTH AFRICAN TOBACCO
IMPORT DUTY PROPOSAL CAPETOWN, Jan. 20. South African tobacco growers and manufacturers conferred with the Gov. eminent to-day. It transpired that the surplus accumulated in 1927-28 amounted to 19,CC0',OCC'lh. bast year's prodiu> t.ion and consumption balanced. The Minister of Agriculture advised selling at a loss. He admonished numufacturers for importing 20,0C0,C001b. in tiic past three years, and advised less production and higher quality. A resolution was passed urging an import duty On leaf of 3s 6d per lb., to be applied to all tobacco, with a preference of GO per l cent, to Rhodesia.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17180, 10 February 1930, Page 11
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