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This information was published in 1966 in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. It has not been corrected and will not be updated.

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Home-garden Production

According to the 1956 Census, 60 per cent of the 563,052 inhabited private dwellings had a garden. Some gardens provided the following proportionate vegetable needs (other than potatoes).

Proportion of Needs	Percentage of Total Specified
All	8.73
Three-quarters	4.41
One-half	8.40
One-quarter	10.33
Under one-quarter	18.40
Nil	49.73

(New Zealand Official Year Book, 1964)

Co-creator

Iain Gordon McKenzie Forbes, M.AGR.SC., Horticultural Division, Department of Agriculture, Dunedin.