FOR WOUNDED SOLDIERS
♦ — GUM LANDS' AS FRIJIT FARMS. (By TeleeraDh.—Press Association.) Whangare!, August 19. Interviewed this morning on the proposal to open up gum lands'for fruit farms for wounded, soldiers, Mr. W. Stewart, M.P. for Bay of Islands, declared himself a strong supporter of the scheme. Ho was on the Gum Lands Commission last year and know there were thousands of acres of gum lands suitable for fruit land. It required turning over to permit the sweetening cffects of the amosphere ■ to operate. It would take one winter and a summer to sweeten. It had been proved conclusively, that gum land could grow fruit; the experimental stago had passed. The Bay of Islands Hospital Board had demonstrated' at Kawakawa that the 'worst gum lands would grow grass, oats, clover, etc. Fruitgrowing on gum land was easier. The north was specially adape'd to growing . apples of a quality, flavour, and colouring not to be excelled elsewhere in the Dominion.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2545, 20 August 1915, Page 6
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158FOR WOUNDED SOLDIERS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2545, 20 August 1915, Page 6
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