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Story: Nelson region

Picking tobacco

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Nelson was New Zealand’s tobacco-growing stronghold from the late 19th century until the 1980s. Watch tobacco being picked in Nelson in 1961.

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Reference: Pictorial Parade 113. National Film Unit, 1961

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Carl Walrond, Nelson region – Horticulture, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/28873/picking-tobacco (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 3 September 2010, updated 1 August 2015.