Volunteers get the good oil on olives

The annual Marlborough RSA olive harvest brought in a bumper crop as volunteers collected up just under nine tonnes, a full tonne more than expected. Harvest organiser and Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology horticulture tutor Don Cross said the quality of the fruit was very good. He expected to get around a litre of oil for every five kilograms of olives, thanks to the rain that fell around Easter.