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My Affair with Tobacco: Poverty and chaos to wealth and stability
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A history of tobacco growing in Queensland, Australia.
Contents: Introductory, snippets of history, Tobacco Inquiry 1933; Mareeba - Dimbulah early thirties; Tobacco comes to Mareeba and Dimbulah; My own farm; Industry leaders; Co-operative Union Progress Report 1947; Co-operative Union Progress Report 1948; Co-operative Union Progress Report 1949; Co-operative Union Progress Report 1950; Purchase land ex Burns Philp, Communist influence; Doubts on Leinster; Communist influence extending; Scrub Typhus and Melanoma; Dismissal of Leinster; Booklet on future of irrigated tobacco; Denied vote at election of Directors; Retirement from Tobacco Leaf Marketing Board; State and Commonwealth Ministers, Department Heads; Dimbulah Selling Floor; Start of firm of pioneer agencies; Tobacco stabilisation, return to Tobacco Board; Tobacco appraisals and Duro Krkobabic; Financial crash
A history of tobacco growing in Queensland, Australia.
Contents: Introductory, snippets of history, Tobacco Inquiry 1933; Mareeba - Dimbulah early thirties; Tobacco comes to Mareeba and Dimbulah; My own farm; Industry leaders; Co-operative Union Progress Report 1947; Co-operative Union Progress Report 1948; Co-operative Union Progress Report 1949; Co-operative Union Progress Report 1950; Purchase land ex Burns Philp, Communist influence; Doubts on Leinster; Communist influence extending; Scrub Typhus and Melanoma; Dismissal of Leinster; Booklet on future of irrigated tobacco; Denied vote at election of Directors; Retirement from Tobacco Leaf Marketing Board; State and Commonwealth Ministers, Department Heads; Dimbulah Selling Floor; Start of firm of pioneer agencies; Tobacco stabilisation, return to Tobacco Board; Tobacco appraisals and Duro Krkobabic; Financial crash