AREAS PLANTED IN COMMERCIAL ORCHARDS.
Following are the estimated approximate areas planted in commercial orchards in the Dominion during the 1917 planting season. The districts quoted correspond to those of the Orchard Instructors of the Horticulture Division, by whom the estimates are compiled.
District, Acres. District. . Acres. Whangarei I IO Taranaki and Wanganui IO Auckland' (North) 190 Nelson . . 400 Auckland (South) 35 Marlborough. . ’ . . 100 Poverty Bay ) . . 18 North Canterbury . . ■ . . 70 Waikato and. Bay of Plenty ... 72 South Canterbury . . . . 230 Hawke’s Bay 60 Otago and Southland . . 200 Manawatu and Wairarapa 30 Total area planted in 1917 . < 1.535 Wellington . . J . . . IO Total area planted in 1916 .. 2,390
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XV, Issue 4, 20 October 1917, Page 236
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105AREAS PLANTED IN COMMERCIAL ORCHARDS. New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XV, Issue 4, 20 October 1917, Page 236
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