“ The country looked like a huge garden,” said Rotarian C. 11. Burgess in a letter Fh’ad at a New Plymouth Rotary luncheon recently, in describing his experiences in travelling through South Germany to Vienna to attend the Rotary International Conference. The whole countryside, said Mr Burgess, was a revelation of intense cultivation. Not an inch of space was wasted. Men and women were alt working, and as long as there was any daylight—and the sun did not set in summer until nearly 9 p.m. There were no eight hours or “ going slow ” on these farms I
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Otago Witness, Issue 4042, 1 September 1931, Page 61
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