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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3526, 30 December 1913, Page 4

You cannot get away from the fact that Poverty Bay has had many years of prosperity, and present prospects point to many more years to come, but if we are going to keep in the forefront we will have to pay attention to more than wool, mutton, butter, and cheese, and I would like to draw your attention to the advertisement in this issue of Square Deal Jones. Squatters and cockles would be doing well if they cut up some of their lands that were suitable for apple growing, and helped to push forward an industry which must before long command l a large share of the markets of the world. A ten-acre block carrying sixteen hundred trees, yielding three thousand cases at five* shillings per acre, or three halfpence per lb, and allowing two shillings and sixpence per case for Expenses, would mean a. yearly net profit of four hundred pounds, or forty pounds per •ere.*