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Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14657, 11 March 1918, Page 3

Time was when the future of New | Zealand was supposed to be chiefly bounu. ] up in its gold resources. Those w,ere 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 j the founding of our industries, and that these latter are destined to play a tremendously important part in the progress and development of the country, who can doubt?- Take one of these industries alone—the tobacco injdustry —and see tl:e strides it is making. Gold Pouch tobacco, grown and manufactured in the Hawke's Bay district, is now in general ttse all over the Dominion and the demand has increased: at such stupendous rate that the maimfaeturers can no longer cope {.with it. It is thus evident that the [ smoker prefers the local product to the j foreign article, chiefly, it "would appear, | on account of its smaller percentage of nicotine, which makes it a milder and healthier smoke— The orice has: not Been advanced, Gold Pm;ch as well as Three, Diamonds is still obtainable at a shilling per pouch. 7B