Correspondence.
CASTOR OIL BEANS. Sib,— l .end you a parcel of castor oil beans for distribution to those who will take an interest m starting a new industry by growing bhem. These beans were ' obtained from *>an Francisco by the Auckland Oil Company, and are the kind which yield the largest return of oil. They should be plauted 12 feet apart, and m two years ihey will bear. Would you . please make t known that beans have bean sent to all -ha Waikato*. steam Navigation Company's agencies, to Mr Duff as, AlexanIra, and Mr Roche, Te -V wamutu, from Yhom they can be obtained. The colony mported last year 74,633 gallons of castor ul, costing £15,6 1 1 . The duty is 6d per jallon. An effort should be made to stop mportation of anything which we oau iroducem New Zealand.— l am, &c, -» T , R- R. Hunt. -Ngaruawahia, 4th Nov., 1879.
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Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1149, 6 November 1879, Page 2
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151Correspondence. Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1149, 6 November 1879, Page 2
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