While explaining the extent to which orchardists in California fight frosts during the winter, Mr Lloyd Williams, formerly orchard instructor stationed at Blenheim, and now in Otago, mentioned to a meeting of Marlborough orchardists last week that last winter 2,000,000 barrels of oil were burnt to provide heat during the freezing period in the orchards. “If you put these barrels in a line alongside each other from Invercargill upwards, they would pass through Blenheim, over Cook Strait, through Wellington and up to Auckland, and then there would be a few over,” he said.
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Southland Times, Issue 23288, 26 August 1937, Page 16
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