DESTRUCTIVE FROST.
LOSSES .IN'.CENTRAL QTAGO,
SOME CROPS WIPED OUT
NO WORK FOR EXTRA HANDS,
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)
DUNEDIN, this day,
The earlier statement regarding damage done by frost to orchards in the Roxburgh district was oy no means exaggerated. In'some places fruit crops were wiped, out, and one nian who expected 50,000 cases of apples lost everything. Tie same can be said of anothci grower who expected .10,000 cases.
A serious aspect ox the matter is the damage to trees and the fact that it may be three years before they are back to normal fruiting. There will be no work this season for extra hands, which usually number about 250.
The Railway Department, which carried 5742 tons of fruit last season, will possibly lose 75 per cent of its customary freight revenue.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 285, 2 December 1931, Page 3
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