Object ID:
2006.687.003
Date:
1948
Description:
The Bertelsen family moved to Otaki in 1940.
Workers for Vic Bertelsen, market garden tomato season, 1948.
From left: Lorna Sundgren, Nick Te Wiata, Edna Snowdon, Vic Bertelsen, Vi Sundgren, Brian Meyer, Nancy Verrant, Alex McLellan.
Front from left: Tommy Southgate, Ray Bertelsen, Trevor Wylie, Kevin Gardiner ('Label Boys').
The Bertelsen family moved to Otaki in 1940. They had a strip of land behind Dunstan St growing tomatoes and other vegetables. They later developed market gardening on the (now old) State Highway named Penray Gardens.
Bertelsen Court, off Duncan St, carries their name.
(See OHJ vol 42, p 28 for further information).
Workers for Vic Bertelsen, market garden tomato season, 1948.
From left: Lorna Sundgren, Nick Te Wiata, Edna Snowdon, Vic Bertelsen, Vi Sundgren, Brian Meyer, Nancy Verrant, Alex McLellan.
Front from left: Tommy Southgate, Ray Bertelsen, Trevor Wylie, Kevin Gardiner ('Label Boys').
The Bertelsen family moved to Otaki in 1940. They had a strip of land behind Dunstan St growing tomatoes and other vegetables. They later developed market gardening on the (now old) State Highway named Penray Gardens.
Bertelsen Court, off Duncan St, carries their name.
(See OHJ vol 42, p 28 for further information).
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Vic Bertelsen's workers, 1948 tomato season
Vic Bertelsen's workers, 1948 tomato season