A vegetable 42 inches long, about 12 inches in girth at its widest point, and weighing 241 b., is an unusual sight in Invercargill at any rate. Yet such a vegetable was brought into the “Southland News” office the other morning, and presented a particularly solid and impressive appearance, being a lightish yellow colour mottled with green and gradually increasing from a circumference of about 5 inches at its narrowest end to about 12 inches at the top. It was a New Guinea butter bean, a new type of vegetable introduced into New Zealand by Mr. D. Hurst, of Hastings, and for-, merly of Invercargill, who was well known as a Southland representative footballer. The vegetable is cooked like a marrow, and grows lying on the ground. One seed is worth 2d. WOODS’ GREAT PEPPERMINT CORE —For Influenaa Soldi.—Aivt.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 233, 28 June 1929, Page 18
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139Page 18 Advertisements Column 1 Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 233, 28 June 1929, Page 18
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