BACK FROM BLACKBERRYING

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 56, 8 March 1915, Page 8

BACK FROM BLACKBERRYING

Acres of bramble, laden with blackberries, lured many people to various parts of the Hutt Valley yesterday. Along the road shortly before the 5 o'clock train left went an irregular procession, carrying the day's spoils in all kinds of receptacles.' The kerosene tin was the _ favourite vessel, and the biscuit tin ' came next. One man had a butter-box, from which the_ rich juice was oozing. Girls in white raiment watched where ho entered the train, and they took another carriage. One woman wheeled a bulky package in a small collapsible go-cart. Several cyclists had rigged up some pieces of packingcase at the rear of their machines, and kerosene tins were lashed to the woodwork. Evidently the excursionists had been all eager for quantity — to recover the cost of the railway fare— and the average load must have left • some material profit to add to the day's pleasure among the thorns. Over a hundred "harvesters" joined the train at Upper Hutt, comprising married couples and other couples, as well as individual adults and boys and girls of all ages. At several stations the freight of blackberries was largely increased—and altogether the day's takings, on a modest estimate, must have approached three ' tons. '