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BARMERA, SA 1945-03. AN AUSTRALIAN GUARD WATCHES JAPANESE INTERNEES CUTTING UP AND PREPARING TOMATOES FOR SEED EXTRACTION AT NO. 14 GARDENS, LOVEDAY INTERNMENT GROUP. THE PROCESS WAS SLOW AND WASTED THE JUICE AND PULP SO THE TOMATOES WERE EVENTUALLY TRUCKED TO THE BERRI PACKING UNION WHO CANNED THE JUICE AND RETURNED THE SEEDS TO THE FARM FOR CLEANING. (PHOTOGRAPHER SGT H. K. CULLEN)
BARMERA, SA 1945-03. NO. 14 GARDENS, LOVEDAY INTERNMENT GROUP. A JAPANESE INTERNEE STIRS A DRUM FILLED WITH TOMATO PULP. THE SEEDS FLOAT TO THE TOP AND ARE THEN SKIMMED OFF. THE PROCESS IS REPEATED SE
BARMERA, SA 1945-03. NO. 14 GARDENS, LOVEDAY INTERNMENT GROUP. JAPANESE INTERNEES GRADING, PACKING AND LOADING A TRUCK WITH CASES OF TOMATOES FOR TRANSPORT TO THE BERRI PACKING UNION. THERE THE JUICE
BARMERA, SA 1945-03. JAPANESE INTERNEES CUTTING UP AND PREPARING TOMATOES FOR SEED EXTRACTION AT NO. 14 GARDENS, LOVEDAY INTERNMENT GROUP. BEFORE THE WAR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SUPPLIED ALMOST A
Barmera, SA. C.1943-03-15. Japanese internees packing tomatoes in one of the many packing sheds on the vegetable farm of No. 14 Prisoner-of-War and Internment Camp, Loveday Group.
Barmera, SA. C.1943-03-15. Japanese internees packing tomatoes in one of the many makeshift thatched packing sheds on the vegetable farm of No. 14 Prisoner-of-War and Internment Camp, Loveday Group.
Yanco, NSW. 1944-01-31. Italian prisoners of war (POWs) from No. 15 POW Camp pulping tomatoes in order to recover the seed. The crushed tomato is then treated with weak hydrochloric acid to free the s
