COCKSFOOT SEED
ONCE FLOURISHING INDUSTRY KILLED BY IMPORTATIONS (By Telegraph—Special to “The Mail") CHRISTCHURCH. Bth January. Some years ago one of the biggest industries on Banks Peninsula was grass seeding, and every summer large contingents of men would go to the Peninsula during the cocksfoot, season. Now, however, the industry 1 is practically dead and few men go annually to the Peninsula for grass seeding. Captain T. Hempslalk, master of the small steamer John Anderson, told a reporter to-day that some years ago he would take as many as 500 men to the Peninsula during the cocksfoot season, and most of them would come away wit.i fairly large cheques. This season, how-, ever, practically no men had gone to the. Peninsula as cocksfoot was becoming very scarce. There were _a few paddocks of it and what there was was better than he had ever seen. The importation of seed from other countries had in his opinion, helped to kill the industry.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 9 January 1931, Page 7
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161COCKSFOOT SEED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 9 January 1931, Page 7
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