SOIL SHIPPED 500 MILES
LAN I) FOR LONELY ISLE HLVJ A I’OKL. .May 15.—The most, precious thing on I Flection Island, Jonclvi hoine of a lew British employees of a cabin company, is the soil which "'as shipped there* from Christmas .Island, more., than oUO miles away. '| he British wanted a garden, but Direction Island, one of tile Cocos group in lla 1 Indian (JCesn, is mostly coral with little or ho soil in winch vegetables could bo grown. Jho cable o< mpanv employees get tired ol tiniicil vegetables and occasional cold storage supplies received by steamer. 'l’lu‘v arranged with officials of the Christmas island Phosphate Company to send them shipments of sod. and now they spend their spare time cultivating vegetables.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 211, 24 July 1939, Page 1
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122SOIL SHIPPED 500 MILES Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 211, 24 July 1939, Page 1
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