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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18016, 7 March 1924, Page 14

The possibilities of sand, hill country for agricultural purposes is not generally understood in this district (says the Levin "Chronicle") despite the fact that it is known that the large Maori population formerly living on this coast grew all thsir crops on such country. Some crops of maize are to be seen across the HorOwhenua Lake at present growing on land which, although having a small amount or soil on top, is pure sand underneath. The maize has attained a growth or over eight feet without flowering. Crops of swedes on the same country are also doing very well, and while goin<r to prove that the sand hius would, as in some parts of France, lena themselves to agricultural development jf once the sand were fixed."