WEREROA EXPERIMENT FARM.
"What truth, if any, is there in the report, whiclr:has. gained currency'.in the Levin district, that the Department propose to destroy, either wholly or partially, the largo and highly successful orchard on the Wereroa Experiment Farm, which is at present in full bearing? This was a question which Mr. Field, M.P: for Otaki, put to the Hon. T. Mackenzie recently. Replying in the House yesterday, Mr. Mackenzie said that the Department most certainly does not contemplate the destruction of any useful or productive fruit trees. A considerable area is devoted to testing varieties. Of ■ those trees, some, that have served their purpose, are being discarded, but • the valuable demonstrations obtained by testing still continue. In part, of tho older orchard regrafting has beeu reserved to, -with the object of securing uniformity of crop, and.a greater.quantity of tho most profitable-varieties of &uit<
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19101103.2.112.3
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 964, 3 November 1910, Page 10
Word count
Tapeke kupu
144WEREROA EXPERIMENT FARM. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 964, 3 November 1910, Page 10
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in