PUEKOHE POTATOES.
DIGGING OPERATIONS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) PUKEKOHE, Friday. After serious delays through bad weather, digging operations on the new season's first crops of potatoes were commenced in earnest on Pukekohe Hill this week. A spell of very favourable weather hurried the crops along, and quite fair yields are being experienced by the growers, while the quality is now well up to the usual standard. The season is much later this year, but nevertheless, the rail-1 way at Pukekohe has been handling almost 00 tons each clay this week. It is expected that the figures will reach 100 tons daily next week. In the flush of the season the average is generally over 100 tons each day, the greater part of which is sent to southern centres. To date very little sign of blight has appeared, and this augurs well for some heavy crops shortly, and will serve in some measure as a recompense for the damage caused a few months ago by severe frosts and hailstorms.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 265, 7 November 1936, Page 4
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