PROFITABLE HOLIDAYS

Evening Star, Issue 19614, 21 July 1927, Page 5

PROFITABLE HOLIDAYS

SYDNEY GIRLS’ CHEQUES. Two bright Sydney girls have told in the Press an absorbing story of an enjoyable, novel, and remunerative holiday which they have spent gathering fruit and lion-picking in Tasmania and New Zealand, and picking potatoes in New South Wales, ft was while stopping at a farmhouse, to beg a billy of hot water, that the fanner informed them of his plight in getting in his potatoes, aud of the fact that he could not get a man to'help him. The two girls exchanged glances. Why could not they pick up ‘‘spuds” as well as a man? They came to terms with the farmer. For five and a-half days .a week they recovered the homely “spud” from the rich chocolate soil, ana were soon averaging twenty-five bags a day each. -At the end of three weeks, with the last of the potato crop bagged and ready to be carted to the shod, the girls left for homo, each the richer by a cheque for nearly £l2 10s, after having paid their board. The farmer voted them the best hands he had had for years at picking up potatoes, and offered them a job again next year. On Saturday evenings they, travelled to town with the fanner and his wife in their, brand-new car, and on Sundays they enjoyed long rides through tire bush.