PEAS GOING TO WASTE
SERIOUS SHORTAGE OF PICKERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NELSON, November 23. A serious shortage of pickers and rapid ripening of crops due to a hot spell are likely to result in acres of peas going to waste on the Waimea Plain. Large parties Of pickers organised by the W.W.S.A. travel from the city by bus daily, including pupils of the boys’ and girls’ colleges, but even this additional labour cannot overtake the work. The local canning factory is receiving a thousand bags daily. Mr L. F. Bcrkett, well-known trainer of trotters at Hope, who is a large peagrower, has offered nine acres of peas free to the public for the picking rather than see them waste.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1943, Page 2
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