"I think I have had a mail of anonymous letters as big as that of any man in New Zealand." remarked Mr W. Machin, replying to tributes paid him by the stall of the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association of Canterbury. Ltd. “They often displayed an extensive and picturesque vocabulary." He recalled one such letter which had contained a seed packet for "English Wonder" peas, with the legend: “You English blighter. why don't you sell New Zealand seeds?" "But those 'English Wonder" peas were grown nt Halswell." Mr Machin concluded.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1939, Page 7
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