LOW MARKET RETURNS
N.S.W. ORCHARDIST.
NO MORE ArPLE GROWING.
(United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received September 7, 10.30 a.m. SYDNEY, Sept. 7. A prominent orchardist in >tlte Lithgow district lias decided to cut down seven thousand young apple trees just bearing, owing to tho high cost of labour and low market returns.
The orchardist declares 'that fruitgrowing is playing a losing game. He states that he will devote the land to a more profitable pprpose.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 240, 7 September 1928, Page 8
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76LOW MARKET RETURNS Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 240, 7 September 1928, Page 8
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