REAPHOOK AND FLAIL
COCKSFOOT IN WANGANUI OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNEMPLOYED Tn most directions the North Island is entirely different from the South. Climate, growing capabilities and styles are invariably different. Wanganui however has one likeness to the famous Bank’s Peninsula of the South Island, and that is in its cocksfoot growing capabilities. A stroll round Wanganui yesterday revealed the fact that some very fine cheques could be made out of cocksfoot seed in Wanganui. Nearly everywhere the grass is standing over two feet high and the ears are full of clean and well-developed seed. In another month the seed will be ready for reaping, but will anyone feel inclined to do the reaping! On Bank’s Peninsula the cocksfoot man. with his wide-bfimmed sundowner hat, long gown or shirt, and reaphook. is a very common sight and some good cheques are made. The expenditure of something like 10s for a reaphook and any amount of energy and application on the cocksfoot in and around Wanganui would net enough money for some mC the unemployed to tide them over the next four months.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19720, 10 December 1926, Page 3
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180REAPHOOK AND FLAIL Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19720, 10 December 1926, Page 3
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