STOCK OF OATS.
THE SOUTHLAND HARVEST
One at least of the grain stores in Invercargill is stocked practically to its full capacity With part of the fruits of the Southland oat harvest. Tiers of bags, each holding from 150 lbs to 180 lbs, and, in rare cases, 200 lbs, are stacked to the roof, and there are about 18,000 of these well-filled bags in the store, almost half of them being the property of different firms which have them stored away. “ This is thq largest quantity of oats *we have ever had in the store,” said the owner. “ Once, during the war, we put some 10,000 bags on one steamer, but we were not then so fully loaded as we are now.” ’Half a dozen fat and halfwild cats frisking about the place prompted him to make a further remark to the effect that it cost quite an appreciable sum to keep the dozen or two feline rat-catchers about the store supplied with milk.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1280, 12 August 1922, Page 8
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164STOCK OF OATS. Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1280, 12 August 1922, Page 8
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