HASTINGS’ APPLE WEALTH
“The shopkeepers of Hastings do not realise the importance of the fruit industry to Hastings,” said Mr C. H. Slater before the Hastings Rotary Club “From the local packing sheds, cool stores, etc., about £IO,OOO is circulated in wages and salaries for a single year. In addition there are several small sawmills cutting cases, which account for a further £SOO in wages. Then, within a radius of about 15 miles, there are some 200 acres in orchards, which are supporting over 200 families, all workers, who spend their money in Hastings. There are instances where orchards are producing 100 bushels of first-class apples to the acre. Probably no other, place in Australiasia can do the same. I do not think that anywhere else the san e amount, in moi. - tary value, could be produced. Even with comparatively low prices some orchards in this district can show a net return of £IOO per acre.”
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1789, 31 July 1926, Page 7
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156HASTINGS’ APPLE WEALTH Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1789, 31 July 1926, Page 7
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