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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20076, 24 October 1939, Page 6

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NATIONAL SCHEME “TOO LATE TO START” DANGER OF THEFT

(Special to the Herald.) TE KARAKA, this day. Maintaining that the council had no suitable land and also that the present was too late to make a start on the i handy portions of the flat country, the I Waikohu County Council to-day

agreed to take no action in regard to, the national plan of vegetable produc- j tion for export submitted by the j Department of Labour. 1 Cr. I-I. C. Boys said that the council j 1 had only small areas, and much ex- P pense would be involved in fencing! i' while when the vegetables wore I j grown many of them might “evapor- j ate." ;, Councillors quoted instances of! j vegetables and even field crops dis- j appearing, and others considered that j J the season was now too late to make a start on the flats, although the higher I j j country was much later. A difficulty U with the high country, however, was i ( that it was too far away for the cm-1, | ployment of men from the town. | ! Cr. M. Doyle contended that if vege- j ] i table growing was to be profitable, I , | the crops would have to be planted 1 1 | well away from the roads, otherwise j | many of the vegetables would be ( [stolen. He had had experience of that '| with potatoes. i j No action was taken. : (