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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14712, 18 September 1918, Page 9

The suggestion that banana-growing * m New Zealand might be made a profit- 1 able occupation was recently made by a correspondent of the Auckland Indus- i trial Association, and i;lie matter waa '<■ referred to Mr T. W. Kirk, director of 1 the Government Horticultural Depart- 1 ment. Mr Kirk has replied stating thar. he -does not think banana 'culture con-Jd * ever be made a success m New Zealand. * Certain plants of the banana family bad i long been grown m Ihe Dominion, but 1 no one had- yet produced a- bunch of 1 really good fruit. The banana, was a tropical plant, and required 1 a hot and '1 moist climate and a .tnttil absence of 1 frost. * Tho American viewpoint with regard te> wai/iji illustrated m interesting maainer m h letter recently received by tli's Victoria Leagiif from an English clergyman now m the United States. ' He .writes: "I. should lik,e t<y say a. few words about the Americans, This is a small State University pla^oe, and' represents the cultured side -of 'American- life. Four months ago there was gHeat t&.k among ali classes of people — the United States was going to finish the war-job vevy quickly. . . To-day there has come a clwnge. There is no* less determination, but eyeiT day the American talks legs of himgeff. and more of England. Klowly the mjracxilous accomplishments of England are being realised here. I' cannofc bvefr-estimate jfche thoroughness of the war spirit. No on© flow dare make a pa-oi/teb arpeeioh, or refuss to .eubsci-ibe to a war Joan, JJcoijomy is b>eing pttfdiedi m every direction ; there are Tneatlesß and wheatlesß days, oven. *heat'•itSB 1 days m some St-ateai. "■Tbe.womert give-" -w.fi their time outside domestic yinties to Ited Cross work, and many , University students go ' out ivursmg babiek (tic,, to make money for the \M:c.k* •■;■■.. I For Cb,ronic Chest Ctemplaints, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6, 2/6.* |