REAL SURPRISE
FARM LAYS GOLDEN EGG. A few years ago two brothers owned a potato farm near Ballarat, in Victoria. Though they worked from daylight to dark they only managed to eke out a bare existence. One morning, after a particularly heavy rainfall, they were horrified to find that part of their crops had been washed away, but on looking closely they discovered that a gold reef had appeared where the soil had been! In the first three years i( yielded £lO.OOO worth of gold, and the other day the brothers sold their potato farm to a syndicate for £30.000.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1940, Page 6
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100REAL SURPRISE Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1940, Page 6
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