TOBACCO INDUSTRY

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 8, 31 July 1930, Page 4

TOBACCO INDUSTRY

COMMITTEE TO INQUIRE

WELLINGTON, July 30. A select committee to inquire into the Dominion’s tobacco growing and manufacturing industries was appointby tho House of Representatives this afternoon.

Tho committee, as originally nominated, consisted of Messrs Murdoch. Atmore, Black, Olinkard, Munus, Barnard, Mason, Harris, Campbell and Kyle.

'■ Replying to Mr II E. Holland, Mr Forbes stilted that it would not be possible for tho committee to report prior to the introduction of the Customs Amendment Bill.

Mr W. J. Poison suggested that it would have been preferable for more members who wore farmers to have boon included in the committee, Mr A. J. Murdoch said it was not possible to include all tho farming members of the House. Most tobaccogrowing districts were represented. Mr Forbes said he had no objection to increasing the personnel of the committee, whereupon the names of Messrs Poison and Tan Henare were added. Mr D. Jones contended that the average rate of pay on relief works had probably been higher while the R-form Party was in office than at the present time, in spite of tho criticism of the Reform Party’s standards.