CITRUS FRUIT GROWING

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 499, 31 October 1928, Page 15

CITRUS FRUIT GROWING

PROGRESS AT KERIKERI ALDERTON GROUP SETTLEMENT The first year’s planting season of tho Alderton Group Settlement at sunny Kerikeri, in the Bay of Islands, under the direction of the North Auckland Land and Development Corporation, Ltd., has now closed. Applications for the sections exceeded anticipations, but the corporation staff was able to plant all sections for which citrus trees Were available. The result was that 12,500 citrus trees, including oranges, lemons and grape fruit, were planted on 45 acres belonging to the corporation and 100 acres of 5-acre plots of the sectionholders. About 20 miles of passion fruit vines (between 10,000 and 12,000 plants) have been planted. The first section of this scheme, about 500 vines, was planted in October last year, and it is now bearing fruit which is being marketed. Twelve miles of afforestation belts, a chain wide, have been laid out with Australian hardwoods. Secsions on the new subdivision on the uplands blocks can now be secured. People wishing to haye their plots planted next season must make appliction to T. Mancle.no Jackson, sole agents for the North Auckland Land and Development Corporation, Ltd., before December 30.

Dairying and earily cropping may be mixed with fruitgrowing on the deep, rich volcanic soil at Kerikeri.