A PROMISING INDUSTRY.

Wairarapa Age, 6 August 1930, Page 4

A PROMISING INDUSTRY.

While this country of necessity relies mainly upon a limited number of staple primary industries, it is (highly desirable that every opportunity should be taken of widening the range of its industrial production, both primary and secondary. An important item in the category of industries as yet little developed in the Dominion, but which might be developed with considerable advantage and profit, is the commercial production of seeds. This industry and its possibilities are .to be the subject of an address to be delivered at the Municipal Buildings tomorrow evening by Mr. J. W. Hatfield. Agronomist to the Department of Agriculture. The opportunity of hear ing the possibilities of the industry outlined by an expert of high standing is one that should be welcomed by all who are interested from any standpoint in the development of the smaller land industries. Commercial -seed growing has obvious claims to attention in a district like the Wairarapa. ■lt is an industry that lends itself to the intensive cultivation of land in small -areas' and is capable of affording ti considerable amount of light, interesting :and, in the right conditions, profitable employment to members- of both sexes. Probably it should bo ranked with those land industries that can be carried on advantageously on small areas in the near neighbourhood of towns. From the point of view of national economy, it is evidently very desirable that many of the seeds now imported should be grown' within the Dominion and the Wairarapa appears to have everything to gain from mak ing its full contribution to this development. All who are interested in the progress of the district, and not least those who possess or could take up areas of land suitable for seed growing, should make a point of 'attending Mr. Hatfield’s lecture.' In arranging this and other lectures of the' kind the Small Holdings Association is Tendering -a useful and practical community service.