AREA PLANTED IN COMMERCIAL ORCHARDS.
.Following arc the estimated areas planted in commercial orchards in the Dominion during the 1916 planting season. The districts quoted (says the Journal of Agriculture) correspond to those of the orchard instructors of the Horticulture Division, by whom the estimates arc compiled: Area in District. acres. Whangarei 10 ° Auckland (North) 200 Auckland (South) 50 Poverty Bay 20 Waikato and Bay of Plenty .... 25 Hawke's Bay Manawatu and Wairarapa , 60 Taranaki and Wangamri 6 Nelson 1,325 Marlborough 10 ° North Canterbury 100 South Canterbury 30 Otago and Southland 300 Total area planted 2,390
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Otago Witness, Issue 3278, 10 January 1917, Page 6
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96AREA PLANTED IN COMMERCIAL ORCHARDS. Otago Witness, Issue 3278, 10 January 1917, Page 6
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