A STRANGER ON TAKAKA.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13647, 12 February 1913, Page 7

A STRANGER ON TAKAKA.

In a letter received a few days ago, Mr S. G. Smith, jiui.,.'who recently left Dunedin to tako eharg-e- of the Takaka office of Messrs ,'Adams' and Harley, solicitors, Nelson, gives some interesting particulars regarding the district in which he is located. He says the heat at midday is almost unendurable, especially if there is no-wind.. "This place, '*'he adds, "is very much like the Taicri Plain. It is a plain at the widest, narrowing to about three miles at the head of the valley. It i,s a great agricultural country, and there are ■ some : splendid runs. The people do not go in much for ' fruit- except in on© place, which \ -shall \c\\ "you about. Hops a re,:'.grown a good deal, «!-«o'a for.'.peaches and Kmiie-le-m-DnSj ?Md ■onci .or.two i>c»piu ~!u:-v<> : j; ■fo'.v'-.^rangc-' trees, j The other day Mi" Adams 'aiid I drovo. down to Ellis's friiit farm and-wine collars. Thoy .showed us. all over, the v.'me cellars, wliero they have about 05000 worth of wine maturing. Thou they turned us loose, .in the, cherry orchard! Just fancy, about «ix acres of cherry -trees s.inip-ly loaded with absolutely dead ripe eJiorries! It is no •exaggeration to say that you could ■hardly .sop the k\avc« for fruit. It is a great sight, and people oorae- from all over the place to yoe .'it. "The" wine' they make, Muscadine, is not bad stuffnt nil. It is a sweet wine, but is very palatable."—"Gtago Daily Times." :