It is not usual for amateur gardeners to be able to ’ pick ripe tomatoes in July from plants grown outdoors, yet such was the experience of one Wanganui family last week-end. The proud housewife displayed for Sunday tea a salad of the new season’s lettuce and spring onions, garnished with s’ices of the last tomato off the old plant that had been bearing since late in February. Nearly every year a number of Now Zealanders return to th» Dominion with t'm report, that “there is rothino- about New Zealand in the Foolish newspeners.” It would probably surprise them to know if says the New Zealand News, published in Fondoo) that, the avoi p daily number of newspaper cuttings relating to New Zealand exceeds two hundred. A casual glance at two or throo Londonj papers does' not give sufficient ewdo nce to form a sound opinion on this subject.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 299, 1 August 1929, Page 1
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