FRUIT CULTURE.
There are portions of tire Master tan district iwkicli are admirably adapted for fruit culture. It is a. thousand > pities to see the land lying idle. Can no movement be -started .to organise the fruit growing-industry on a large j scale? Fourteen years ago Mr J. N. Williams returned to Hastings from a. visit to' California. He related bis experiences to the writer of this article, who sitrongly urged him to utilise some of his land in growing fruit. A company was started, and the result is to be seen in the Friimley orchards to-day. Those orchards have been the making of Hastings. They have found homes and employment for scores of people, and are yearly becoming a greater source of profit. Will .some man, or body of men, take the initiative in Mastertkm?
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10236, 12 May 1911, Page 4
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136FRUIT CULTURE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10236, 12 May 1911, Page 4
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