TREASURE STORE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 127, 31 May 1937, Page 9

TREASURE STORE.

NORTH AUCKLAND.

COMING INTO ITS OWN. StTRFACE «SCRATCHED." i In the course of his address to share- ' holders in the Northern Steamship Co.. Ltd., the chairman of directors. Sir i Ernest Davis, said it whs gratifying to ; record that Xorth Auckland, one of the treasure stores of Auckland city, was steadily hut surely coming into its own. "Its possibilities.** Sir Ernest ; declared, "are unlimited. With its ' urbane climate, its warm, inviting val- | leys and its potentialities for produc- j tion. the Xorth lias a preat future, i which will lie the more quiiklv reached and the more easily consolidated when j mixed farming, including systematised i fruit growing with its collective market- ' injr. supplants the method which confines the bulk of the eggs to li: one basket. "At present the surface oniv of development has been scratched. I look forward to the day when the YYinterless Xorth mav challenge Auckland's claim of being Xew Zealand's most flourishing province. With its wonderful harbours and its sheltered bays, the Xorth demands an efficient shipping service. I which at all times we have sought to supply.'*