FRUIT GROWING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2018, 17 June 1885, Page 2

FRUIT GROWING.

What a satire on our want of enterprise (says the 1 Southland Times) is the fact that we should have to import apples all the way from Tasmania, or even from California, We have a soil and a climate admirably. wM for fyitgrpwjng, a,pdje| 'p'piipt'' 6iir, : owrf tabled .'A fact like thjs l ' phqws |hat js, something radically wrung in wx peonainlQ condition, No country oan he in a healthy, state - which despises or negleota the smaller indHstrles, W? Jfew are not content with modest, steady gains; we must make our pile in no time, or we imagine we are hopelessly linprosperpus; nay, t!|e|'p org ■ those amongst pf whp Tiyj)pl(|'ratlie|''gp''idle Joiirigijig abbut'with tfe'i'r 'h!iliqs ui'their pockets, the most dismal louking'of God's creatures, than engage in any line of industry that did not promise ari ample and immediate return .for their labour. The discovery of gold, in the first place, and then the heroic Public Works policy, have taught us to expect too muchmore than any other community receives, and more than New Zealand itself is able to continue to give.- The Government stroke has been a great . represser of energy and enterprise, and' it has especially tended to prevent fte cyltiyatjpn gf wjjat we haye pallejj fjie smaller industries, qf whicli fcuUvgrqwing' is at once one qf the mostinteresting'and most important. It. is npthing short of a stapling disgrace tp tjip "pploiiy that it cannot produce, or'rather that it will not take the trouble to produce, a. sufficient supply of such ft common, wholesome, and easily grown fruit as apples, Grapes are quite a different matter, These can only he grown, in anything like perfection, in certain favored districts, but apples could be grown everywhere, and ought to be as beautiful as potatoes. The reason why such is not the case, lies entirely in our own negligence and want of enterprise. How differently the Americans would- manage this matter, apd how djferently we ourselves should have managed iPbqfc for that demoralisingGovernme'nt stroke!