HOP-PICKING IN KENT
ANNUAL TREK FROM LONDON [from our own correspondent] LONDON, Sept. 1G East End Londoners may get what is often thoir only sight, of green fields in this season of hop-picking. Down into Kent last week went a cheery army from the city. Hop-picking is hard work but it is approached in the spirit of an autumn holiday, and they were happy laughing crowds that made their way to the hop fields by special trains and by road. Beds and bedding, pots, pans, perambulators and all the paraphernalia required to make themselves thoroughly comfortable, were carried. The onco familiar tents have disappeared, for huts are no\y provided to house the 50,000 workers, and a minor township with grocery shops and cotfoe stalls has sprung up for the season. At one time it was thought that the wet summer would cause an epidemic of hop mildew -and ruin the crop, but repeated spraying and a spell of bright Bunny Weather have given disease no chance <£o spread. An excellent crop is expectea.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22545, 9 October 1936, Page 20
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