The New Plymouth Borough Council! has decided to* purchase another petrol bus and an English chassis has been agreed upon. Mr. 0. Robb, who has returned to Ilaweia after an extended tour in Australia, expresses himself as astonished by the wonderful effect, of irrigation at Siiepparton Isays the Star). Where previously the country was barren, it is now most prolific. in the space of tiltoon years the countryside has been transferred into a, veritable orchard. Seven million tins of fruit were canned last- year. Besides this there is jam manufacture in the off-season for tinned fruit. In all directions one sees orange and lemon groves, and atone nod other fruit trees.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17142, 18 September 1926, Page 3
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