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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 April 1939, Page 12

The potentialities of the growing of fruit and vegetables was indicated by samples of onions, grown in poor gum country, 20 miles north of Awanui. Two average samples both measured 13Ain. in circumference and weighed lib. soz. but specimens of just under two pounds were grown in the same area. No artificial fertilisers were used, but the crop had plenty of humus from the ploughing in of green crops. In the same area bananas and figs are being grown successfully ! and the success obtained in the growing of these tropical fruits suggests that the long narrow neck of land between Kaitaia and Spirits Bay in the far north, much of it waste land today, can be profitably utilised .in the growing of citrus trees and fruits of a. tropical nature. I