Identifier: blackpoliceofque00kenn (find matches)
Title: The black police of Queensland : reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Kennedy, Edward B
Subjects: Queensland -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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OLD FRIENDS (Ch to my mind the happy times of days longpast — the halcyon days of the Southern River Mob. There is, besides, an excellent likeness inthe B.A. of C. S. Dicken, C.M.G., who haslong and faithfully served the QueenslandGovernment as secretary in Victoria Street,and with whom I had the pleasure of sailingon my first voyage to the antipodes. There are a couple of short articles in thispaper which especially appeal to the planter,and which 1 will now quote in case they mayhave escaped the eyes of those young menwho are contemplating emigration to Queens-land, with a view to taking up that healthiestof all occupations—the cultivation of the soil.The first article is headed Tobacco. Of late years tobacco has become a well-established industry in Queensland. The mostsuitable land for the successful production ofthe tobacco leaf is that in the Texas andInglewood districts, where the bulk of thetobacco growers are now located; and anexpert in Melbourne has stated that judging
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XX) TOB.ATCO CULTIVATION 269 from the class and quality of some Texas leafwhich had come under his observation, heconsidered that the district would becomethe future Virginia of Australia. When theuniform tariff of the Commonwealth comes intoforce, the Queensland tobacco crop will be amuch more important industry than it hasbeen possible for it to be hitherto. TheGovernment has appointed a tobacco expert,whose duty it is to give growers the benefitof his advice, and any other assistance in hispower. The crop marketed for the year ending1899 yielded about seven hundred and sixty-five thousand pounds of tobacco, and foundready sale at about sixpence per pound, whichamounted to ^19,125, or about ^24 peracre. Under the present system of cultivation—which is an expensive one, and does notembrace the latest ideas on the subject—thecost to the farmer of a pound of tobacco readyfor sale is about threepence, so that evenat that price the profits considerably exceedthe profits per acre reap

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