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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 17 August 1927, Page 6

From present .indioatibns. there seems a bnipjlxt. future tor the local tobacco giraweais (remarks the “Nelson Mail.’’} Many in tilie Rtwakqi district have done exceptionally well this year. A cheque .for £5(5 for a. .small parcel of three bales was one grower’s first rotunn, with a further quantity still to dispose of. Ttiepoiitis Indicate that all have done remarkably well, and instances are known where some have already scrapped their hop gardens to make wav for this profitable crop. Since May, 1920, tho kauri planted by tho Prince of Wales on the archery lawn in tho Botanical Gardens has grown in height bv six feet, and has put on a corresponding growth in other directions (states the Christehurch Sun). “It is doing extraordinarily well,” remarked Mr J. Young, the curator, ‘ 1 the growth being very good considering that it is essentially a slowgrowing tree, and this specimen is away I from its proper latitude.”