TOBACCO GROWING.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11850, 5 June 1919, Page 6

TOBACCO GROWING.

Per Press Association. Wellington, June 4. At a sitting of the Parliamentary Industries Committee to-day the evidence of Mr A. Harris, M.P., Waitemata, taken on Juns 2nd, was read. Mr Harris produced a sample of the tobacco grown at Henderson, 12 miles from Auckland, by Framich, a Dalmatian, who told him he was a very successful grower of tobacco in his native country and had imported seed from there and planted it at Henderson with highly satisfactory results. Framich assured him that the sample of tobacco he produced was second to none in the world and was grown on what was known as poor gum land. Not far from Framich’s place there was a block of land belonging to the Crown forming a gum reserve, and a suggestion had been made teat it should be offered for settlement by soldiers desirous of going in for tobacco culture. Partially disabled men could carry on the industry with some Government aid.