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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16521, 23 August 1919, Page 7

BRITISH-GROWN “BACCY.” A NEW INDUSTRY THAT IS COMING. The cultivation of tobacco in Britain, now being encouraged by means of Government subsidies, was once sternly prohibited. Only after long agitation wore farmers permitted to grow a small' quantity for medicinal purposes. After some time, however, it was found that the privilege was being abused. For years many farmers in Yorkshire, more especially, had been in they habit of cultivating tobacco on quite an extensive scale, and as they paid no duty on it whatever, they reaped enormous profits, just like the illicit whisky distillers in Ireland and elsewhere. So in the end the excise authorities decided to take a hand in the game. Scores of farmers in the vales of Pickering'and York and elsewhere were arrested, their tobacco crops were publicly burned, and they themselves sentenced to various terms of imprison-, meat in addition to having to pay ! huge fines. i Tins put an end to the illegal eul- ! tivalinn of tobacco as a commercial I speculation.

All the Nya! props rations can be obtained from tho Central Pharmacy (between Morey’s and Mollison’s); ’phone era.