STORM PLAYS HAVOC IN MARKET GARDENS
Local market gardeners, who only a few days ago welcomed the ' advent of rain, had a different stoc-y to tell this morning. Telephone enquiries revealed widespread damage to most crops. Tomato plants were flattened and those in more sheltered areas had their fruit bruised and battered in such a manner as to.render a considerable proportion unfit for marketing. A local grower of raspberries said he had anticipated a good second crop, but the fruit, which was just beginning to ripen, was now waterlogged and he v/as doubtful if his crop could be saved. Continued hot weather and a dry wind might help matters, but he was not holding out much hope of this proving effective. The top leaves of the tomato plants were riddled with holes, said one gardener when describing the havoc wrough'; by the storm. He said he could nut understand how his had occurred unless hail had also fallen. "You would think someone had gone through the crop with a shotgi-n," he concliided.
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Chronicle (Levin), 17 February 1947, Page 4
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