COMMUNAL FARM
FAMILIES IN PALESTINE.
A Wellington soldier writing home provides an interesting note on life in Palestine as the result of a visit to the Plain of Armageddon, or Megiddo, which lies south-west of the Sea of Galilee. “I was able to look over a communal farm and was told how it was organised,” he writes. “On this farm, inhabited mainly by Jews from all countries, there are 80 families, making a total of 200 with the children. “No money is given to the people. Everything they require is issued to them on much the same lines as in the Army, and each person has his or her allotted job. Food is served in a large dining hall. “There were 135 cows to be milked by hand three times a day. The farm is fully mechanised with tractors, reapers and binders, etc., which is a great contrast to the smaller village farms, where the camel -is used to tow the single-furrow wooden plough.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 May 1942, Page 8
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