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Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14539, 17 October 1917, Page 3 (Supplement)

In everything there is a beginning, and on Monday.evening in the Wellington Town Hall, Archbishop Jledwood told of the first peach-grown in Meison, and _of the excitement caused by the first "ripe peach his family had seen. "My father brought it inside to us," he said. '"We had to make it go all round, and we each had a little bit of it. We "thought it delicious. We saved the stone, and after a few years it grew up and gave us tons of peaches. Then the first apple came. We ate that and saved all; the pips, planted j them, and ,they grew up, so after a time we had ample fruit. But there, \vere ho blights, and you all know what troiible they have caused *since." I Archbishop Redwood also referred to the intense heat of the Nelson plains in the early days—hotter days than ever thej' are now, he said. "We grew grapes in the open air, and they ripened perfectly. I defy anybody' to do that in the same 'places now." The Archbishop thought that the uncultivated ground had something to do with the extra heat.