CANTERBURY PROGRESS LEAGUE
VISIT TO NELSON. By Telegraph—Press Association. Nelson, September 25. A visiting party from the Canterbury Progress League has been greatly impresed with tho possibilities before the fruit industry. What years ago was barren land is now the centre of thousands of acres of orchards. It has been stated that half a million cases o£ apples will pass over the Motu.eka wharf alone in the coming season. Ths south Is crying out for early apples, but the present transhipment charges constitute a great difficulty The league is impressed with the necessity of pushing on railway construction ami linking ’up the isolated sections of tho Nelson-West Coast railway with tho southern system. The work of tho Cawthron Institute in scientific) research, especially soil survey, has been specially interesting to the Progress League members. The f party will leave to-morrow for Marlborough.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 1, 26 September 1921, Page 7
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142CANTERBURY PROGRESS LEAGUE Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 1, 26 September 1921, Page 7
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