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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1939, Page 3

The potato crop in the Gisborne district this season is estimated in some quarters to be double that of last year. Plantings continue, and large areas are to be sown yet on the high country. The demand for seed potatoes at present is exceeding the available supplies, which are difficult to secure. One firm states that it sold from three to four tons of seed potatoes during the last month. There has been a steady demand for seed potatoes for the last three months. The first of the crops were planted in June in areas which are usually frost-free, particularly at Wainui Beach, but the early growers were disappointed this year, for the snowstorm which occurred at the end July destroyed the crop, which was then just above the ground. From the end of July areas have been planted in potatoes all over the low country, and most of the amateur gardeners in the town also have larger plots. Some of the early plantings are being dug now and are coming on to the market, but supplies will not be available in any quantity until the end of this month.