COST OF VEGETABLES
i' "Relief Worker" writes from Mornington to say that he is not only a relief [worker but an amateur gardener who grows his own vegetables as a hobby, and he knows that it is cheaper to buy vegetables than to grow them. Among the reasons he gives for the failure of the Wellington amateur gardener to produce as cheaply as the commercial gardener are bad land, high cost of manure, failure of seeds to germinate, restrictions on use of water, and -the -white" butterfly." If the board is to insist on vegetable growing by relief workers, it should grant them assistance to do so. Unlike farmers, vegetable-growing workers are not compensated for frost damage.
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Evening Post, Issue 56, 7 March 1934, Page 15
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117COST OF VEGETABLES Evening Post, Issue 56, 7 March 1934, Page 15
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