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“Gentlemen: The land on which you now stand was, in 1860, covered with tussock, flax, raupo, manuka and sparsely timbered with black and white pine, totaras and cabbage trees. Behind you a creek flowed across the property connecting various swamp areas to the Selwyn River. Crows’ nests were built to enable shepherds to locate stock fattening on the tussock and grasses in the swampy areas.” So Mr R. A. Ball prefaced his remarks at a field day held this week on the property of Messrs Hamilton and Ball at Sprlngston, where the Department of Agriculture has had a demonstration drainage farm. In the latest financial year this property of about 200 acres produced almost $17,000 worth of produce.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31730, 13 July 1968, Page 8
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120Changing Times Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31730, 13 July 1968, Page 8
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