Tobacco Industry for Rabaul

From Our Own Correspondent RABAUL, April 17.

ANEW industry has been opened in Rabaul by the Rabaul Tobacco Co. Ltd. at its factory at Malaguna, where native stick tobacco is turned out in large quan tities. The factory is in the capable hands of Mr. W. G. Staley.

In appearance it is very difficult to tell the difference between the locally manu factured sticks and the American article.

The process of working the dried leaf into symmetrical twisted sticks, carefully picked over, and packed into small, handy caddies of 141 b. nett weight, is intensely interest ing.