Papuan Tobacco-Growing Plan
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From Our Own Correspondent
Port Moresby, July 12.
NOTHING further has been done in the plah to establish a tobacco growing industry in Papua, put forward a couple of months ago. Con ditions are said to be too uncertain to embark on a costly new enterprise.
The Administration showed interest in the idea, and, it is understood, offered an excise duty lower than the prevailing import tariff. Twist tobacco was to be manufactured to replace the trade tobacco (mostly of American origin) now issued to native labourers.
Mr. “Jock” Ritchie, of Bulwa, New Guinea, arrived in Australia recently to join the AIF.