Owner and winemaker Hamish Jardine talks about how he discovered his avocado trees completely stripped of their fruit"Stupidity and desperation" are the only reasons a police officer can think of after 50 avocado trees were completely stripped of their fruit in Hawke's Bay. He said the thieves cut through a fence near a group of beehives and it was estimated they took an apple crate worth of fruit. Crab Farm owner and winemaker Hamish Jardine estimated there would have been 50 to 70 avocados on each tree. supplied Fifty avocado trees were stripped of their fruit in Hawke's Bay last weekendJardine said he had never pruned the lower part of the trees and it was possible the thieves were hiding underneath them. Georgia May Gilbertson Fifty avocado trees belonging to Crab Farm Winery were stripped of their fruit last weekend"People who commit these kinds of acts don't care, thieving is like a disease.

Source: Stuff December 03, 2019 23:24 UTC