AGRICULTURE IN N.Z.
Mr F. R. Smith, the representative ,of Agriculture in the British Overseas Settlement Delegation, returned to Wellington at the week-end, after a comprehensive tour through the North Island, much impressed by what he had seen of New Zealand farming and its results. Of course, a visit to the Development Farm at Ruakura was included in his itinerary and judging from his high eulogy of the work being clone at the place it is likely to remain with him as a pleasant memory for a very long time. He was delighted with the manner in which the farm was laid out, with the stock, with the preparation of the soil for crops and, above all, with the skill and thoroughness of the management. He brought away the conviction that it was a national asset of great value. Mr Smith was astonished at the high prices paid for land in parts of the Dominion and still more astonished by the fact that farmers made such land pay. The explanation he found in the fact that New Zealand's splendid climate and fruitfulness of much of its soil made up in great measure for the country's great distance from the world's markets.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1418, 20 October 1923, Page 7
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201AGRICULTURE IN N.Z. Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1418, 20 October 1923, Page 7
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