Electricity on Farms
He had been staggered to learn that 94 per cent, of the New Zealand farms were connected to electric power supply, said the Victorian Minister of Agriculture and Forests (Colonel A. H. Dennett) in an interview. “You have attained here what it is going to take years to develop in Australia,” he said. It was gratifying to him that this amenity, which was really a necessity, had been made available in New Zealand to those who deserved it most. Some of the workshops he had seen on New Zealand farms had amazed 'him and the best of these could not have been so complete if electricity had not been laid on. Colonel Dennett, who said that he was a great lover of horse-flesh, added that he had been disappointed to see so few farm horses in New Zealand. He realised that thia was because of the high degree of mechanisation of the farms.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 58, Issue 4106, 28 February 1949, Page 4
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156Electricity on Farms Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 58, Issue 4106, 28 February 1949, Page 4
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