TRACTORS POPULAR
POWER FOR FARMING
The extent to which New Zealand farmers are adapting themselves to mechanised aids in developing. land and in maintaining production ean be gathered from the fact that all classes of farm machinery are sold in increasing numbers each year. The greatest relative increase occurred in agricultural tractors, which, in the year 1938-39 rose 20 per cent. in comparison with the number in use during the previous year. This represents the sale of 1508 additional tractors devoted to farm operations, bringing the tetal number in use in New Zealand to 9639. Since then the power plant has become even more popular, but the war has had its effect upon importation? and has created a position where the business of farm contracting by iirms and individuals has developed amazingly.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1940, Page 8
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132TRACTORS POPULAR Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1940, Page 8
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