TROPICAL AGRICULTURE
TALK TO ROTARY CLUB To-day’s talk at the Auckland Rotary Club luncheon directed members’ attention temporarily to the subject of agricultural activities in the tropics. The speaker for the day was Mr. C. B. Du Pertius, who has recently arrived in New Zealand after 20 years in the New Hebrides. He prefaced his remarks by mentioning the importance of science in agriculture, bringing vegetation to its maximum capabilitjfor bearing the raw material. Tropical soils at first would grow almost anything, but abuse rapidly caused deterioration. Ignorance on the part of the island planter was simply ruinous. It had been found, for instance, that rubber should not be drained from the trees in the day-time, it being better to bleed at night, when the returns were bigger, without damaging the trees. New Zealand had its own problems, but the South Sea Islands were near it and it might well move to inaugurate research and teaching before some other country did.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 189, 31 October 1927, Page 9
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