DAMAGE TO FRUIT
INVESTIGATION OF ANTI-FROST SYSTEMS (United Press Association) AUCKLAND. April 19. The gradual changing of the season and the frost are causing so much damage to fruit and loss to growers that the Government has instructed Mr W. R. Lloyd Williams, orchard instructor in Central Otago, to leave by the Aorangi for the western states of America and to investigate the antifrost systems there. Fire-pots, known in America as “smudges”, are employed ill few New Zealand fruit-growing areas, but Mr Williams seeks an alternative method, and hopes to be able to introduce it before next spring. In America, said Mr Williams, the use of fire-pots is part of orchard practice. He anticipates the universal adoption of some protective in New Zealand. It would save the country much loss from frost-bitten fruit.
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Southland Times, Issue 23178, 20 April 1937, Page 6
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133DAMAGE TO FRUIT Southland Times, Issue 23178, 20 April 1937, Page 6
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