"There is an impression abroad tins year that tomatoes arc poisonous on account'of the spray on them, and for this reason people will not eat the fruit," said Mr T. R Conway at Friday night's mooting of the Manawatu Fruitgrowers' Association.. "The matter has been gone into and it has been proved that a man has to eat two and a-half bushels of freshly sprayed fruit before he would bo subjected to any discomfort at all on account of the arsenical spray. The matter has been scientifically proved, and there is no danger."
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Shannon News, 27 March 1923, Page 2
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