FIXED TOBACCO PRICE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19134, 1 October 1936, Page 6

FIXED TOBACCO PRICE

DOMINION-GROWN LEAP

REQUEST TO CABINET

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day

Tho (Minister of Industries and bommeree, tile Jlon. It. G. Sullivan, stated yesterday that the Tobacco Board bad held a meeting at which, following upon a request made by the Government, it had formulated a' long-range plan for the development of tobacco growing and manufacture in New Zealand. The Government had asked the board to consider, in relation to the formulation of such a- plan, the most practical method to adopt to ensure that the highest possible percentage of New Zealand s tobacco requirements was grown and manufactured in the, .Dominion within a. period of live years, and also to consider the question of where export fitted into any such plan of development. These points, had been fully considered by the board, and ns ! lie" outcome of the meeting a plan was adopted by the, board and would shortly be submitted to the Government for consideration. Tho hoard had recommended that action should be taken by the Government to fix the minimum price for leaf, as a temporary expedient, in relation to the balance of tho 1935-36 season s crop of leaf, pending the adoption ol a complete scheme for the betterment of the industry. The Government was considering the recommendation at present.