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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 268, 6 December 1939, Page 4

Napier Data paints. *4 >’ «$> »«? . * 'rile* laTge' vfmnej^es• olL.dntoy- on t*ho palms in Alemorinl Square, Napier, are at present in the ripening process, and the bunches include .several dates which are brown’and ripe. Though these dates are not of the variety purchased in the grocer’s shop, they have a distinctive date ii'avour and are quite palatable. Last year these palms bore large quantities .of dates, hut this year, probably because of tho favourable conditions, the palms have excelled themselves and the branches arc weighed down by tho crop of fruit. Only in the ease of tho older palms has the fruit matured!, though the younger plants have borne fruit of a smaller size.