TOBACCO GROWN IN NEW ZEALAND

Southland Times, Issue 25483, 2 October 1944, Page 2

TOBACCO GROWN IN NEW ZEALAND

Increase In Production Figures given in the annual report of the Department of Industries and Commerce show that the production of tobacco in New Zealand in the 1942-43 season was 3,185,1831 b, an increase of 463,6441 b compared with the previous season. * “• Despite war conditions, which have presented special problems, and although the programme of steady expansion envisaged by the board has necessarily been curtailed, the to-bacco-growing industry has maintained production at a high level, a record harvest having been attained during the season under review, says the report. For five successive years the average prices received by growers were 1/10 1 a pound for flue-cured and 1/7J a pound for air-dried leaf. As a result of a recent application for increased prices made to the Price Tribunal by the New Zealand Tobacco Growers’ Federation, after careful investigation an increase of Id a pound was granted for leaf of the 1944 harvest. The average prices therefore were fixed by a Price Order issued by the Price Tribunal at 1/11J a pound for flue-cured and 1/8J a pound for air-dried leaf.