SOUTH AFRICAN FARMING
POOR MARKET FOR PRODUCTS
Air. Robert Murie, formerly of Invercargill, writing to a friend in New Zealand from Salisbury, South Rhodesia, says that lately there has been no market for many of the products grown on farms in South Africa. Even maize, which is mostly ground there, has met with very small demand, and tobacco is in the same position. He thinks that the producer must go back financially this year on SO per cent, of the farms. In mining, also there lias been a big setback in South Rhodesia.
Mr. Alurie is living at Avondale, a suburb of Salisbury. He has planted 4900 restrain trees on his property, the object being to sell the timber for firewood. Gums do specially well in that district. Mr. Alurie does not know how long it will be before, lie sees New Zealand again, but he hopes that the fates will permit him to return some day.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 12 September 1930, Page 6
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157SOUTH AFRICAN FARMING Hawera Star, Volume LI, 12 September 1930, Page 6
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