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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4877, 15 November 1894, Page 2

It is somewhat curious that in tho' Wairarapa tho only men who achieve success in fruit growing arc those whom we are taught by the Hon. Mr. llocves to regard as "social pests." Mr W. 11. llcctliam, for example, is growing this season grapes by the ton, n good marketable article that' could bo sold at a price tint would yield him a bamlsomo profit pn )iis outlay. Wo mention this tg ppovc that fruit can bo grown,successfully ill largo quantities. Wo,fear that when the "social pest" becomes extinct;'that this and many other enterprises will languish, It is not altogether oil money fruit growing depends, it is niqre on knowledge and ability, '■ Unfortunately this knowledge and ability is possessed by very few persons, and these are not supposed to bo people whom men ought to copy mid admire. The Government might, perhaps,: produce largo supplies of fruit by. co-operative labour, if it could only get ji..'! spcipl pest". to show them' tbu right way'til go to work, Ip time, when " social peßta •'■' ivtutnxcii out of tlio land, it will bo ns liccps* snry to import wool into Wellington as it is now necessary to introduco fruit, . ~,■.;• •'■;:::'!":' '. 7" '