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Observer, Volume XXXIV, Issue 23, 14 February 1914, Page 10

An apple a day keeps the doctor away—but as a pessimist said "a brick is equally effective." Apropos of apples, it is not without interest that New Zealand imported from abroad in 1913 .£14.7,000 worth of apples. Enorgh to give one the pip, what? Also apropos of the finest fruit two American buyers lately approached W. H. Stafford, of the Ruby Bay Estate, Montere Hills, Nelson, desiring half a million cases of apples a year for the South American market. That looks like a bit of an opening for somebody. A lot of people have seen the opening and have got in early. The Ruby Bay Estate is becoming thickly settled with apple growers. Mr Stafford came North for a holiday. He happened to advertise in the Observer about those apple lands. No holiday! Telegrams chasing him all over the place. The apple hunger is on. One chap bought 30 acres down there and another eager apple grower rushed him at ouce with J2300 on his bargain. Apples grow to perfection in Nelson. Even the Tasmanian product is not superior and the business is clean, interesting, profitable and natural. If everybody who insisted on consuming pills turned to the natural food and medicine that grows on the apple tree —what a lot of doctors would have to go apple growing !