VEGETABLE GROWING
- Twenty .'• girls of the . Takapuna Grammar School worked to-day under direction on a vegetable farm, at Belmont as part of their effort at vegetable production. The work will be concluded to-morrow. This-is -the first party to go from the Takapuna Grammar • School, "which 'is'.making an "early .start on the work to be carried on later in the year .and.early next year. The girls were employed at planting tomatoes and celery.- ; - - "-' '■ ' Secondary school pupils are in many cases working individually at home or in private groups. Those at the Epsom Girls' Grammar School have . .been . provided . with -large quantities of seeds and seedlings, and about 300-girls are working voluntarily either in their own gardens or at the homes of friends where there is more suitable ground.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 248, 19 October 1943, Page 5
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