DOMINION FRUIT PROBLEMS
SOME GROWERS TOO DEPENDENT. IMPERIAL EXPERT’S IMPRESSIONS. . By Telecraph.—Press Association. - Wellington, Last Night. After an extensive tour of the fruit districts of New Zealand Mr. R. G. Hatton, representing the Imperial Board of Fruit Production, left the Dominion this afternoon for Australia, where he will also investigate fruit problems. 1 Summing up his general impressions of fruit-growing in New Zealand Mr. Hatton said some remarkably fine work had been accomplished/” Many cultural problems were ''similar to those experienced elsewhere, but some growers were inclined to wait for the scientist to produce a cure-all like a conjurer bringing a rabbit out of a hat, instead of taking commonsense steps of natural sanitation and hygiene for the trees.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 December 1930, Page 6
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