Photographs and article by B. A. SIMPSON, Nelson reporter of “The Press." ABOVE: Nearly half the tobacco consumed in New Zealand is produced on about 5000 acres of land in the Nelson province. In 1969. 523 growers produced 7,603,906lb of tobacco leaf. The district also produces all of New Zealand’s hops. This photograph was taken from above Riwaka—New Zealand’s sunniest area last year Tobacco is being grown on the land in the foreground. At slightly right centre is the hop research station of the D.S.I.R., and other hop gardens also stand out in the background. LEFT: Each year hundreds of young men and women from all parts of New Zealand go to the Nelson district for the apple and pear harvest. Australians and often Americans join the work force during the season. Tasman is one of the main apple-producing areas, where Messrs Trevor Colebrook (Auckland), Don Lawson (Kumara), and Russell Fireman (Palmerston North) are picking Red Delicious apples on the orchard of Mr R. Rowlands. Emptying his bag into a holding bin is Mr John Noble (Alice Springs, Australia): BELOW: Whole families used to leave their homes and travel to the Motueka district to pick hops. Today, machines have supplanted the hands of the pickers, and only one grower, Mr P. Trewavas, of Brooklyn, still uses pickers in the Motueka area. When the hops are ready on his farm, the pickers arrive. Among them, in this picture, are Mesdames C. C. Spence and C. J. Trewavas. Mark Trewavas and nine-month-old Andrew Spence are interested spectators.

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32566, 27 March 1971, Page 11

Photographs and article by B. A. SIMPSON, Nelson reporter of “The Press."

ABOVE: Nearly half the tobacco consumed in New Zealand is produced on about 5000 acres of land in the Nelson province. In 1969. 523 growers produced 7,603,906lb of tobacco leaf. The district also produces all of New Zealand’s hops. This photograph was taken from above Riwaka—New Zealand’s sunniest area last year Tobacco is being grown on the land in the foreground. At slightly right centre is the hop research station of the D.S.I.R., and other hop gardens also stand out in the background. LEFT: Each year hundreds of young men and women from all parts of New Zealand go to the Nelson district for the apple and pear harvest. Australians and often Americans join the work force during the season. Tasman is one of the main apple-producing areas, where Messrs Trevor Colebrook (Auckland), Don Lawson (Kumara), and Russell Fireman (Palmerston North) are picking Red Delicious apples on the orchard of Mr R. Rowlands. Emptying his bag into a holding bin is Mr John Noble (Alice Springs, Australia): BELOW: Whole families used to leave their homes and travel to the Motueka district to pick hops. Today, machines have supplanted the hands of the pickers, and only one grower, Mr P. Trewavas, of Brooklyn, still uses pickers in the Motueka area. When the hops are ready on his farm, the pickers arrive. Among them, in this picture, are Mesdames C. C. Spence and C. J. Trewavas. Mark Trewavas and nine-month-old Andrew Spence are interested spectators.