TOBACCO FROM CYPRUS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11685, 29 April 1916, Page 7

TOBACCO FROM CYPRUS.

CULTIVATION REVIVED, ~- }^ j — tlvaki r In former times the tobacco-growing industry of Cyprus was of some import* ance, but latterly it had pracfacalH ' disappeared. In 1905 tho the Imperial Institute, who visited 0 colony at. the request of the of State for the Colonies,, that this industry should be r J is satisfactory to note that this sugge*'* J tion has now borne fruit. A compjsfa : | wag formed in 1913, with the reviving the Cyprus industry, 1 bacco is now being cultivated at 1 ber of villages', and is also being J experimentally by the | Agriculture. Five samples of grown. " Turkish " tobacco ly been examined at the Imperial &:£*, fifitute, and the reports of British. bacco manufacturers thereon receive**; * The general result of these investlgifc ...' tions and reports is ;#»!.* the tobaccos are regarded asdistan«Q rrtf? I f ? promising for the manufacture of wearwto ettes of the Turkish and BSHWWjf" types. ; 1 Now that the difficulties created, the Turkish suzerainty of Cyprus been removed, and the island come a British possession, the indrrsjfttfsi may be expected to make rapid' 1 piPW; gress. ;.'■''