WEREROA FARM ORCHARDS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1338, 16 January 1912, Page 8

WEREROA FARM ORCHARDS.

ARE THEY TO BE DESTROYED? At a meeting of the Horowhenua Fruitgrowers' Association last week, the secretary (Mr. Fusclla) .-aid that there was a movement on t'cot to destroy the orchards at the State Farm, and he thought, tlio association .should lake .some, steps in the matter. He suggeste'd, tlyvt the association should visit: the orchards as th n y were of Hie greatest utility, not only t;i the district but. to the whole country.* Mr. Grace said 'that : ho believed that there was a movement lo wipe tho orchards out. Mr. Foaella thc-n moved a resolution in tho terms of his remarks— "That a visit be y.iid to the Slate, Farm, mill lhat frequent visits, be paid in the future." Mr. Grace seconded the motion. The chairman remarked that: a good portion of the orchards had already been done away wilh. The orchard, said (he spcak?r, was doomed as thiniw were at present, and he characteri.-eil the dc.-triic-lion of four acres of cider, trees «,■< abominable. The Slate Farm was lliere for (jiving information, iihd that wa.s why pi'Jliln went (o it. Mr. Grace: It is a farce as it is today. Mr. I.ilnckbiirn remarked tint what was wauled was experimental work, which was nut only for the good of the district, but for tho good of thu country. , The chairman said that the association had had u. very good time on the Inst: occasion they vi*itcd the orchards, and he did not see why Ihuy should not have a RO-d iriustv'r of mi'mbor.s ou fhe forthcoming occasion. Tho motion was then agreed toj