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Northland Age, Volume 19, Issue 31, 3 November 1921, Page 5

At the monthly meeting of the Hawera branch of the Farmers’ Union a member mentioned that a friend of his who was farming land which had been infested with blackberry had managed by dint of hard work to considerably check the pest. A Government valuer had then paid the friend a visit and had raised the valuation, while at the same time a neighbour who had not bothered to eradicate the weed had his land re-valued at a lower sum. “ A dilapidated individual who calls himself a ‘picker’ gives this account of himself,” relates a well-known social worker: “In the summer I picks peas and fruit; in the fall I picks hops; in the winter I pick pockets, and when I’m caught picks oakum. I’m kept nice and warm during the cold months and when the fine days come around again I starts pea picking.”