ORCHARDS ABANDONED.
FARMS LACK WATER.
POSITION AT CROMWELL.
[dy telegraph.—OWN correspondent.] DUNEDIN, Thursday.
A number of orchardists have left the Cromwell district, abandoning their holdings, because of a lack of water. Somo have pulled out their trees, others have simply let them go back to non-producing condition, not attempting further culturo. This retrogression has been going on for fivo or six years. Water is obtainable only by irrigation. Ripponvale is'one of the localities that has thus suffered. An area of about 500 acres was tliero set out in apples and pears, mostly apples, and oil a rough estimate 150 acres, of that ground has declined to its original state. Five of tho holdings have been thrown out of action, euch of from 10 to 20 acres, during tlio past two years.
Sonio of tho choicest apples ever seen hero or anywhere elso wero brought to Dunedin this season from a watered Ripponvale orchard that is separated by only a wide fence from land of similar nature that is lying depopulated and useless, because water, which is running to waste near' at hand, is not pumped up another 50ft,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20595, 20 June 1930, Page 14
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188ORCHARDS ABANDONED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20595, 20 June 1930, Page 14
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