UNSEASONAL FROST
LOCAL CROPS CUT BACK -J A hea\T frost yesterday morning cut back potato and tomato crops throughout the town and district. Other crop£ also suffered severely and local residents report the, blight-* ing of leaves on grape vines and • early kitchen garden plants. , ' In the county it was, apparently worse. Several farmers with large: ' areas of early potatoes hacl their plants almost cut to the -ground. A typical example is the sorry .■ plight of a large area sown in pota_ . toes by a prominent Awakeri farmer.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 17, 23 October 1945, Page 5
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88UNSEASONAL FROST Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 17, 23 October 1945, Page 5
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