MAORIS AS WHEAT GROWERS
ACRES PLANTED AT RATANA Press Association EIARTON, Today. At Ratana. a large team of workers has been busy during the past few weeks. Tractor ploughs have been employed regularly in turning over the land. Practically all the natal-la. Pa. side of the railway line to Turakinu has been dealt with and huge fields are under cultivation. Ratana esti—mates that fully 1,000 acres will be growing wheat this season. He is doing good Work by keeping scores of llaori men and youths actively engaged in agricultural work, and states that a proposal to establish a Liam-i boys‘ agricultural college is under consideration.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 720, 20 July 1929, Page 10
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