STATE MARKET GARDENS
OPERATIONS SAID TO BE UNECONOMIC
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, April 5. Because it considered the Government’s market garden operations were being carried out on an uneconomic basis and at a loss to the country, the Makara-Hutt Valley branch of the Farmers’ Union passed a resolution requesting the Government to cease this undertaking immediately and asking that the manure supplies so released be diverted to farmers. The resolution will come before a meeting of the Dominion executive in May. Complaints regarding the uneconomic basis upon which State market gardens are operated were recently expressed by Mr B. V. Cooksley, president of the New Zealand Market Gardeners’ Federation.
Big Yield of Potatoes.—A root of potatoes grown on the farm of Mr Hubbard, Mount Nessing, has given a yield of 90 tubers, weighing 901b, The root was a self-sown, Dakota.
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Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24226, 6 April 1944, Page 3
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STATE MARKET GARDENS
Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24226, 6 April 1944, Page 3
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