Tlie total area in commercial orchards in New Zealand is approximately 30,000 acres, of which about 75 per cent, consists of nnples. “There is one thing that does not come up to the general excellence of tho province/’ said the Hon. W. Pember Reeves, to a Southland Times reporter “and that is the surfaces of tho roads. Tne road botween Lumsdon and Manapouri is anything but a good advertisement to the tourist* from overseas who will go there this season, and I hope something will be done to remedy such a serious defect as soon as possible."
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Otago Witness, Issue 3743, 8 December 1925, Page 60
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