PEANUTS FROM TONGA.
Spedding and Co., Auckland, have been advised that the Department of Agriculture of the Tongan Islands (a British Protectorate) has for some years devoted energy and research to the development of peanut production, and that they have achieved a definite measure of success going by samples submitted. Although at the moment production has not reached the stage for immediate export business in volume, supplies for export should be available in about ten or twelve months' time. Samples comprised two varieties, graded according to size as follows:— Virginia Bunch, first, second, and third grades; Spanish Red, first and second grades. The samples of Virginia Bunch are described as similar to the Chinese nut and the Spanish Red very similar to the Java Kernel which has proved most popular in the New Zealand market.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 121, 18 November 1940, Page 10
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135PEANUTS FROM TONGA. Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 121, 18 November 1940, Page 10
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