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Otago Witness, Issue 3869, 8 May 1928, Page 47

“Miss New Zealand” (Miss Dale Austen), accompanied by Mrs Beatrice Vernon, her chaperon, left San Francisco on Wednesday by the Matson Steamship Line for Honolulu, where she will join the liner Aorangi on her return to New Zealand. Two pictures have been completed by “ Miss New Zealand.” In one she was starred with Colonel Tim M‘Coy. In the other, in which the feature player was Ramon Navarro, the Dunedin girl had a minor role. *’ Miss New Zealand ” is due at Auckland on May 21. After her return she will make personal appearances throughout the Dominion with a film which depicts her travels in America. Running along the west coast of the North Island from Pouto, at the northern entrance to the Kaipara Harbour, to the Mangonui Bluff, a distance of about CO miles and within easy reach of Dargaville, is a belt of frost free country capable of development for the production of early vegetables, such as potatoes, beans, onions, carrots, parsnips, cabbages, cauliflowers, etc. On an area originally purchased for the gum chips which it contained, Messrs Elliott and Co. have demonstrated that the production of early vegetables and passion fruit is a commercial proposition (says the Auckland Star). Shipping by Sunday’s steamer product can be sold in Wellington on Wednesday. Dwarf beans, which can be placed on the market two months ahead of other districts, have returned as high as Is 9d per lb. and passion fruit right through the season has not realised less thqn 9d per dozen. Recent returns have netted as high as Is per dozen, and the market is clamouring for more. The vines are making a return of from 20s to 25s per plant per annum. Around the homestead all varieties of flowers and shrubs grow in profusion.