FROST HITS FRUIT CROP
■Press Association
By Telegraph—
HASTINGS, Oct. 22. Widespread severe damage to orchanl and vegetable crops in Ilawke's Bay was eaused overnight by oue of tlu niost severe frosts experieneed in tlu month of ()etol>er since the disastroib visitation in 15)3(5. Stone fruits especially certain varieties of peaches suid plums, and the mai 11 vegefalile crops of tomatoes, potatoes and beaus, are affeeted and it \V011ld appear tluu the damage is generai throughout tlu Hastings and Napier districts and up tlie coast to Wairoa. While fruit Iosse; are undotibf edly severe, it seems llial except in a few instanees, there ha-, been tio eomple.te wiping out of crops As usual Ihe - niajority of fruit growers took preeautions and had their firejjoi' burning all night. A survey of the dis I rict is being carried out by ollieers of the Department of Agriculture and rej> resentatives of the fruitgrowers and eommereJal gardeners organisations While pieliminary reports con ftrni that there has been widespread damage, tlie 1'ull extent of Ihe visitation can only be estimated at tliis atage, 1
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 October 1946, Page 5
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180FROST HITS FRUIT CROP Chronicle (Levin), 23 October 1946, Page 5
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