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Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14588, 17 December 1917, Page 7

Time was when the future of Nov,Zealand was supposed to be chiefly bourn.! xxp in its gold resources. Those were ! the days of the Otago and West Coast! rushes. Since then agriculture, on a' big scale, and sheep and cattle raising on an equally large scale have opened up new avenues to wealth. • Later came ; the founding of our industries, and • ; that these latter are destined to play ' a tremendously important part in the' progress and development of the coun- : try, who can doubt? Take one of ' these industries alone—the tobacco inj dustry—and see tl:e> strides it is mak- ' ing. -Gold Pouch tobacco, grown and manufactured in the Hawke's Bay dis- : trict, is now in. general use all over ; the Dominion and the demand has increased at such stupendous rate that the manufacturers can.-no "longer cone with it. It. is thus evident that fr-e smoker prefers the local product to the .: foreign article, chiefly, it'would appear, ! on account of its smaller percentage- of i nicotine, which makes it a imkler'and "'• healthier smoke. The price • has not! been advanced, Gold"'Poncli as well a* ' Three Diamonds is still obtainable pt ! a shilling per pouch. .. ju i