Heavy Potato Crop
DIGGING AT PUKEKOHE PUKEKOHE, Dec. 2. Huge quantities of new potatoes are now leaving Pukekohe daily. A goods train left for the South this afternoon loaded entirely with potatoes. There were 31? trucks, carrying approximately 200 tons. Other trucks were loaded later for the North.
Probably a record output from 0110 paddock for a day was despatched from Mr T. W. Russell’s farm, Pukekohe West, to-day. Twenty Maoris started digging a lfi-acre crop about 4 a.m. They continued throughout the day, and despatched approximately 26 tons. The exact total was 980 sugar bags. The aim was to reach the 1000 mark but the time of despatch ended a little too soon.
Tho Maoris continued until dark and reached a tally of 1200 bags. The crop was averaging between 10 and 11 tons to the and they lifted about three acres.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 288, 5 December 1936, Page 12
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143Heavy Potato Crop Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 288, 5 December 1936, Page 12
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