WAERENGA EXPERIMENTAL FARM.
By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 3. The Hon. A. W. Hogg, who visited the Waerenga experimental station on Saturday, staged that it is proposed to subdivide a portion of the estate into a number of leaseholds, eafh of an area of about 50 acres. Each tenant will have about 25 acres of orchard, 21 acres for grass and general crops, and about four acres for vines. The wattel-bark plantation is producing good results—about 150 tons, of the value of over £I,OOO having been obtained during the past season. The question of erecting a tannery in connection with the farm is now under consideration.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3180, 4 May 1909, Page 5
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106WAERENGA EXPERIMENTAL FARM. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3180, 4 May 1909, Page 5
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