THE LEMON CROP
DECREASE THIS YEAR (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Mar. 21. Despite the eradication of 17 acres of uneconomic orchards, New Zealand’s crop of lemons in the past season was a record one, totalling 141,000 cases. The previous record was in the 1941-42 season, when 122,000 cases were produced. , ... These figures were released to-day by Mr A. T. Douglas, orchard instructor of the Department of Agriculture. It was expected, he said, that the crop now maturing would show a decrease of 30 per cent. The commercial production of grapefruit rose last season from 50,000 cases to over 60,000, and sweet oranges from 14,000 to over 20,000. The bulk of the citrus fruit in the Dominion was grown in the Auckland, Kerikeri, and Tauranga districts, as elsewhere frost handicapped successful cultivation. There were a few orchards m Hawke s Bky and Gisborne, but the only citrus fruit grown in the South Island was in the Nelson area.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25800, 22 March 1945, Page 6
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155THE LEMON CROP Otago Daily Times, Issue 25800, 22 March 1945, Page 6
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