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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 12263, 26 May 1934, Page 10

MANURE YOUR LAND NOW AND ENSURE GOOD CROPS! SUPERPHOSPHATE, BASIC SUPER, NORTH AFRICAN PHOSPHATE, GUANO BLOOD AND BONE MANURE, CARBONATE OF LIME, burnt lime, sulphate of ammonia, SULPHATE OF POTASH, NITRATE OF SODA. We also have MIRANDA ACRICULTURAL SHELL LIME which is essential in soils such as exist In Poverty Bay, where it exercises a pulverising effect on the tightly * bound soil, giving greater freedom to root crops. THE GISBORNE SHEEPFARMERS’

Land is at a nrennum in the Wanganui district, and incomes for it aro hard to satisfy. There are large tracts of country ip the far back regions which have been neglected for some years, largely because of weaknesses in the wool market. Much of tho country ha s gone back into scrub and fern, and the price asked for it by mortgagee owners is too high to interest purchasers. Better class of land, however, is hard to obtain and prices, despite the slump show no sign of falling. -'Tho latest sale on record is that of a sheep property at Fordell, which, sold by a mortgagee in Wellington, brought in the vicinity of £26 per acre.