Fruit Growing

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 65, 28 November 1891, Page 3

Fruit Growing

R \BX OXfn ASHUBST COBBESPOXDEIfT.] -; Waikauao is an unimportant little place now; but wilH in all ; probability, increase Mn a year or : two. Capt Kemsley, from Kent; England, has had large experience in fruit-growing in England and in California, and while there he mastered the details of canning, and preserving 1 fruit. „.-Mv Kemsley after visiting blocks of land in various partj of the colony has decided m fayour of Waikanae. Ho has secured a block of 9000 acres at Ngarara, on the iWaikanao river. The Government have bought the land from the Maoris, and are just about to start the survey. Tho block is well watered by numerous creeks running into the Waikanae. The top soil is of a friable loam, subaoil sand^ clay, resting on a shingle bed. Ono portion of the estate, containing about 1200 acres, has a quantity of timber on it. It is; intended to cut up the land into about 100 sections. Mr Kemßley has any num. ber of applicants for these. One condition of tenure is that each settler shailplant fire acres of fruit as a minimum. The Company will be named Tho Wellington Go- operative Fruit Growers' Associaton, L : mitcd, wilh a capital of £20,000. Whou in working order 500 acres of fruit will give employment to a large number of hands and also warrant the erection of jam factories and canning works (both for vegetables and fruit). This is the part of the . undertaking interesting to settlers in the Maaawatu and Fohaugina for we all know what a difficulty there is sometimes iv getting rid of produce in the growing season. A prospectus will shortly be issued, which will inform those who interest themselves of the objects of the Association. In some respects it will be on the Small Farm Association rules. The Association proposes to throw down 1500 acres of bush this season in a continuous line on the front of sections so as to (if weather permits) ensure an equally good burn for all. A small strip of each section will then be grubbed to serve as a nursery for young trees till a large area can be brought into cultivation.