KENT HOP-PICKERS.
BETTER CAMPS NOW. (Special.— By Air Mail.) LONDON", August 31. Londoners preparing for their annual trek in Kent, where the hop-picking season is beginning, will find a great improvement in conditions at the camps where they will live. Following questions in Parliament, strong measures have been taken by local authorities to prevent overcrowding. Growers have been asked to fill in forms stating the number of pickers they intend to employ. Dr. Nicol Galbraith, Medical Officer of Health for the South-west Kent United area, has sent out a notice recommending the type of hut most suitable. The hop crop "should be plentiful and of high quality. Picking will begin at the end of the week. For many years Londoners have flocked to Kent in the August-September I season to pick hops — whole families spend two or three weeks in the fields The conditions hitherto have beer extremely bad — a. constant source o: [UW-azement to the Dominions, visitoc.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 223, 20 September 1935, Page 5
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