BADMINTON

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 152, 26 April 1940, Page 5

BADMINTON

AWTKERI CLUB'S MEETING On Wednesday. April 17th* the Awakeri Badminton Club held the annual meeting. Mr F. Villls (Secretary) read the report and balance sheet for the 1939 season. It was proposed and carried that the fee be 15s for men ancl 12s for ladies. The opening night was fixed for May Ist and-members from other clubs are Invited to play that even-* flTg. The following olficer;s were elected:—President: Mr W. Tyssen; vicepresidents: Messrs Luxton. McKenzie, T. Kerr, F. Matchett and NU Macdonald; secretary: Miss V. Million; committee: Messrs B. Rae, E»Habgood, and A. McKenzie.

a very beautiful river gorge, through which the road runs, is kindly land,, very easily worked and the oldest pasture is excellent. Red clover predominates during the initial stages on all this class of country and in nearly every area one hears the Maori foreman boasting of the height, or rather the length, of it. A man at Waiohau claimed a record of six feet. Breeding Quality Romneys. Huge stacks of hay are ready for the coming winter, and there is doubt, that the stock will be well done in the matter of feed. the introduction of Romney rams of a very good type, this and other blocks are breeding sheep for transfer to other rchemes. There is nei doubt that Waiohau will turn ofE first-class two-tooths, for the ewes are of high quality. Incidentally there is a mob of this season's lambs on a Putauaki farm not far away so well grown that they have become a district boasts

The native land superviser at Wha katane, Mr L. H. Brown* has a large aggregate area of sheep country under his control, and it is evident that he, like Mr W. Scott, the Rotorua superviser, follows a policy which aims at building up breeding flocks of high quality. Twelve Hundred Draught Horses. A PQint of interest is that in the! Waiariki administrative. district, which includes both Ttoiorua and Bay of Plenty territory, "the: scheme" uses no less than 1200 working horses, and it is the policy to buy none over three years. Feed is grown for a considerable number of the teams, and hundreds of foals are bred each year. Seeing that a mare can work pretty well up to the time she foals, the breeding, which ensures more than renewal of the draught stock, places no restriction of any consequence upon the plough* ing and cultivating programme-