In everything there is a beginning, and on Mou'lnv night, at tho Well ington Town Hall, Archbishop Redwood j told of the first poach tree grown in ! Nelson. .'51.-J of i.h<i <>xcit(>i?vnt caused « by tho frr^b rip"' pca'-h his family had ' r.fMra. "My f':ith>r brought it inside |to us,;' he sa.ui. "We had to make it ' :ro all round, nnrl \v;.-> onvh )v.i<] a little i i>;'. of it. We thought it delicious, 1 We saved tho stono, and, after a few I yonrs, it pvo.v up and gave us tons of ! washes. Thorn 'flip first applo came. Wo ato that and saved all the- pips, j planted thorn, and they grew up. so after a time we had a,niplo fruit. But tht».-o >v°ro no blights, and jrou all i know wiiat trouble they have caused J sir.co." Archbishop Redwood also ro- ' forrou in tlie int-pnso boat of the NelI son pb'ns in tin oarly days-—hotter ; (la-s than orcr they are now, ho said. I "We grow iimpP'S in tho o))on air, and i.hi\v ript>rif!ri oerfeetly. I defy any- . luifly to do that, in the ram? places ; v i\v." Tho Aivhbisho;) thought that jii\.^ uncultiv.ih-o.d ground had .sonuv ; ihing to (In with the oxtra he;i-t. ! lf/fjouoinise by buying our V.O.S. ! Scotch whisky. 7s G,l per bottle, at thu Masonic TTot-r-I. -Advt.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 231, 29 September 1917, Page 3
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