SHORTAGE OF PEAS IN CHRISTCHURCH
DEPLETED SUPPLIES FROM WAIMATE From Our Own Reporter WAIMATE, January 7. A probable factor in the shortage of supplies of peas and the consequent high prices prevailing on Christchurch markets at present is the marked falling off in consignments from Waimate, according to growers in the Waimate district.
One grower told a reporter of “The Press” that he usually sent a ton of peas every day to Christchurch at this time of the year, but this season his crop was finished, and picking had ceased. Several other growers are in a similar position as the result of the prolonged wet spell in the early part of the season, and the dry weather which followed. Rust destroyed large areas of the young crops. One man who planted 16 acres of peas on the hillside above Waimate lost the whole of his crop. In a normal busy season, about four tons of peas are sent from Waimate railway station daily for the city markets. but this year, because of the failure of the early crop, this figure was not reached until just before Christmas.
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Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24150, 8 January 1944, Page 2
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