NELSON’S HARVEST
The harvesting of the apple, hop, and tobacco crops of the Nelson district i« now in full swing, and in the Stoke, Belgrove, Moutere Hills, Mapua, Tasman, Motueka, Riwaka, and Motueka Valley districts about 10,000 men and women are engaged in the orchards, the hop gardens, and tobacco plantations. _ The Nelson province offers the unusual sight of tobacco and hops, on a commercial scale, growing side by side. A tour of inspection or the district through the apple lands to Motueka and Riwaka and up the Motueka River Valley provides an interesting and enjoyable outing. The orchard trees are heavily laden with fruit and they present a wonderful sight. In each shed on thfe route there are large staffs engaged i£ grading and packing, and in the orchardpickers strip the trees and start the apples on their way from Nelson’s of chards to the United Kingdom market*.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22831, 16 March 1936, Page 13
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149NELSON’S HARVEST Otago Daily Times, Issue 22831, 16 March 1936, Page 13
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