PROFIT AND PLEASURE ON TASMAN LAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1915, Page 4

PROFIT AND PLEASURE ON TASMAN LAND.

Nature began long ages ago to make Tasman an ideal land for fruit, particularly applies—and the result to-day is a formation and texture of ground which expert observers from various countries concede to be as near perfection as man could wish. This is not vain assertion. The evidence is on record, with the names of the witnesses, in a book of fifty-six pages which the Tasman Orchards Co., Nelson, will send post free to any address. .Sometimes, when. Nature is lavish with one gift, she is niggardly with another; she caresses with one hand and smites with the other. But she is mil her best behavior in Tasman. The pleasant climate, with 110 extremes of heat and cold, matches the soil for apples and for comfort of living. The climate suits the homestead as well as the orchard, and the landscapes and seascapes are a perpetual refreshment. Here is "a place in the sun." where a man can be as care-free as the singing birds. He has space to live, space to think clearly and cleanly, space to enjoy—and always he has a flourishing, beautiful town—Nelson —at the end of a wire and within easy reach by a good arterial road. He has the glad country life without any sense of depressing isolation. This comfort is at the command of a wise investor, who takes care to be in time. Such opportunities for easy affluence do not long go begging, There is not much left of Tasman; but there are very many folk who will try for a piece of Tasman when they read the book.

An interesting feature is tlie very successful co-operative scheme under 'which orchards tire planted and maintained to the prolit-eaniing stage, thus enabling the ciiy man to pursue his ordinary vocation while a competency 13 built up and a homo in the country prepared