MR. G. B. FEDERLI AT ARATAPU.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6997, 21 April 1884, Page 5

MR. G. B. FEDERLI AT ARATAPU.

[by telegbaph.—-own cobbespondent.] Dabgaviixe, Saturday. Mr. G. B. Redebli addressed a meeting in the Aratapu Hall on Friday evening,' Mr. Bradley, J.P., in the chair. Messrs. Harding, Coutts, Lindley, and other settlers were present, and spoke supporting the' proposed undertaking, and admitting that they as aettlert,' some of them twenty years in the district, had .been on the wrong tack in seeking to perpetuate old country farmiog here, where the conditions of soil and climate are so different. They hailed with pleasure the proposal to establish a husbandry and industries such as were described by their visitor, and would gladly avail themselves of it, and co-operate. ' Mr. Federli, in the oourae of hi* address, stated unreservedly that he had visited most parts of New Zealand, but that the country he had just been visiting for the last two days,' namely, the Kaihu Valley,- was without exception the best suited of 'any place he had yet seen in New Zealand for the establishment of an experimental farm for sabtropical products.-The following resolution was carried unanimously:—"That efforts should be-made to obtain ibhe assistance of Government in any bona Jide undertaking to introduce the cultivation and manufacture of such sub-tropical products as this part of New Zealand is specially suited for."