PUKEKOHE PRODUCERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22751, 11 December 1935, Page 10

PUKEKOHE PRODUCERS

A PROSPEROUS SEASON EFFECT OF HIGHER VALUES (Special to Daily Times) AUCKLAND, December 10. i The higher values for produce have brought to Pukekohe an air of prosperity that has been lacking for the past few years, as it is estimated that the district's income from produce this season will be about £IOO,OOO greater than last year. The full effect has not yet been felt in the town, but growers are already benefiting from the enhanced values for potatoes, which, generally speaking, have been about twice those ruling last season. Men who have had debts hanging over their heads for years now have substantial bank balances, while in one case a grower has been able to pay off the balance of the purchase price of his land amounting to over four figures. Others, although not quite so fortunate, have been able to discharge their bank overdrafts and debts to merchants who have carried them over the bad seasons.

The improvement has not been confined to potatoes. Cabbages, too, have been profitable. . One grower received £3OOO for his crop, another ,£2OOO, while a third with the proceeds of a few acres of cabbages was able to pay a year's rent on his farm of about 40 acres.