All Together In The Cause Of Golf

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31119, 23 July 1966, Page 11

All Together In The Cause Of Golf

J7EW things guarantee success as much as the great community spirit generated by country people when they band together to tackle a common task. The working bee next Saturday to start operations on the construction of the Hororata Golf Club’s new course at Glentunnel will be a grand illustration of how people from many parts of a scattered rural community can rally round to make light work of a major project. It will be a working bee on a grand scale. Between 50 and 60 men will be involved and the mechanical side will be so well supported that the working bee will have all the appearances of an agricultural machinery field day. There will be also a vast company of wives and girt friends at the site to prepare the meals for the work-

ers, for it is planned to work from 8.30 a.m. to dusk. Firms are supplying the food. The job involves the clearing of 16 acres of broom and gorse, about 15ft high, a further eight acres of short gorse, and the erection of 31 chains of boundary fencing. The mechanical might assembled will include 15 bulldozers, all farmer-owned, front end loaders, tip trucks, root rakes and four types of post drivers. Two firms are taking the opportunity to demonstrate chisel ploughs and an agricultural machinery company will demonstrate a bulldozer. This principle of killing two birds with one stone might appeal to other firms with machines suitable for the type of work involved; the organisers of the working bee would welcome their participation.

The land to be cleared is about one-sixth of the total area of the course. The cleared portion will be sown down in turnips and grass to bring it into line with an adjacent area which the tenant has sown in wheat. Then the two areas—which will form the left-hand portion of the course—will be put under the plough. The club intends to give the tenant all the grazing free. The club hopes to have nine holes ready for use in this left-hand portion in two years’ time. The remaining nine holes should come into play in 1970.