The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 SEVERAL TIMES UNTIL THE SEED ARE FREE FROM PULP. UNFORTUNATELY THIS METHOD 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. 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 T
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
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
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 1944-05-16. HEADQUARTERS, LOVEDAY INTERNMENT GROUP. BEFORE THE WAR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SUPPLIED ALMOST ALL OF AUSTRALIA'S VEGETABLE SEED REQUIREMENTS BUT THEIR EXPORT CEASED IN 19
LEETON, NSW. FIVE WOMEN SORT TOMATOES AS THEY PASS ON A BELT IN FRONT OF THEM FROM THE STERILISER. THE VEGETABLES WERE THEN CANNED AND TURNED INTO TOMATO PUREE, TOMATO JUICE AND TOMATO SAUCE. THE TOMA
