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TOBACCO IN LONDON’S PORT. Over 60,000,000 lbs of .raw tobacco leaf is handled in the Port of London every year. This represents 24 per cent of the total annual importation of unmanufactured tobacco into the United Kingdom. The countries of origin are widespread, for beside U.S.A., Greece, Turkey, China, Sumatra, Japan, Cuba and Korea, an increasing quantity, amounting to m'ore than 50 per cent of the total, is shipped from Jamaica, Ihdid, Bu'rina, Africa, Canada, Cyprus, Australia and New Zealand, and other Empire sources. Tobacco leaf stocks in the Port of London are concentrated at the Royal Victoria and King George V docks, where the Port of London Authority has warehouses with a total capacity of 145,600,000 lbs. The. skilled warehouse staff carries out considerable processing on behalf of merchants, including unpacking and . repacking, weighing, garbling, sampling, etc. Of particular credit to this service is the custom of selling whole consignments of tobacco on th erepresentative samples drawn by the P.L.A. staff.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 58, Issue 4193, 7 June 1939, Page 7
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166ALL GOES IN SMOKE Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 58, Issue 4193, 7 June 1939, Page 7
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