DISTRICT NEWS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 10 April 1922, Page 3

DISTRICT NEWS

TASMAN NOTES (From Our Own Correspondent.) What might have proved a very serious motor accident occurred at a sharp corner of the Monte-re Inlet Hoad, near Mr Hugh Thompson’s house on Friday evening, when Mr A. 1. Manoy’s ear, driven by a chauffeur, and occupied by Airs Alauoy and her family, collided with a car which was conveying Air R. G. Mofiatt, secretary of the Alotueka Harbour Board, to Tasman. Fortunately the cars wore travelling slowly and beyond a severe .shock and some cuts about the face sustained by Phil Mauoy, who was in the front seat with the driver, all the occupants got off very well indeed. The Aiouterc Inlet road is a dangerous one in several places and requires attention in the matter of lowering the bunks, cutting hack gorsc and trees and widening the road, and with the rapid increase in motor traffic these matters cannot long be delayed or very serious results may be expected. Only recently Mr L. B. Robinson, of Tasman, narrowly escaped losing a valuable draught horse* through the sudden appearance of a motor car round a sharp bend, and other narrow escapes are also reported. Meantime it is the clear duty of drivers to use care, and to make free use of their motor horns at dangerous corners. Mr W. K. Patey, of Canterbury, lias purchased Air N. J. Adamson s orchard at Tasman and has taken up Ids residence on the section. Quite a. feature of the orchards this year is the large amount of green cropping to be seen in the better worked orchards. Blue Lunins are the .favourite cover crop, and when once tho soil is innoculated they do remarkably well. Some nice crops dfjpeas are also to be seen, Mr Baldwin’s orchard showing up to particular advantage, while others have sown a mixture of lupins and oats. Some hundreds of tons of lime have also been ordered for the orchards and carters are busily engaged in delivering same to the orchards, growers having had an opportunity of observing some most convincing examples of the value of liming the.land bn the_ orchards of Mr I). Haining, of Mariri, and Air AL E. Deck at Tasman. The lower price of commercial fertilisers, such a superphosphate and basic phosphate is also creating some activity in the direction of systematic manuring of the orchards.