Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 20 July 1948, Page 4

Local & General

greaking Utj? A limited supply of funds meant only a limited amount of sprvice by the organisation, said the chairman of the Action Oommittee of Federated Farmers, speaking to a gathering of Gisborne farmers. Lack of funds was causing a bfeak_down of the federation in soirie ways, he stated. Ngauruhoe Again Active Ail" 'd.ay Simday Ngauruhoe was speptacularly actiye. Large columns pf ash-laden steam rose to great heights and ? then drifted to the nprthwest for many miles. The liorthern slop.es of the volcano wpre blackened by steam and ash. At sunri'se the mountain looked magriificent from' Taupo. The activity continues. Pamir's Vpyage "Th'e Parriir has encounterea wintry c.onditions, but all abpard are well," states a message from the barque received by the U.'S.S. Goy., yesterday. On Friday a northwest ' gale met the barque and switched to sputhwest, said the message. Over. the last tliree 4ays her average speed was 11 knots. The Pamir is 2000 miles out ' from 3ape Town and 5550 miles frpm Auckland where she is expected abput* the mid'dle of August." Devaluation Qf Rabbit Skins A plea for the devaluation of rabbit-skins was* macLe by the Mr.

J. R. Byrne? of Porangahau, giving evidence at the Waipukurau sittirig nf the Sheep Industry Cbmmissipn'. His viewpoint was that, while tlje rabbit continues to be regafded as a commercial proposition and not as a 'direct menace to production and soil conservation, the effdr'ts jtoward extermination wouid b/e irefar^ed, Too 'much time was :de|oted' to the eollectinh and treat;ment of skins. Bqys for Flock House Fifteen British boys, sons qf pg"serviG.emen, are to arrive in New Zealand next May to be'gin a cou'rse pf fa'rm training at Flock Hop^eThus, 12 years after the New Zealand Government took over |;'he Flopk House Estate from thp trusteps, the varied accents " of British boys will onG,e' again be heard. Founded as a lhemorial to the Dpminion by British seamen in World War I, tne Flock House scheme, financed by contributions frojn New . Zealand .sheep farrpefs totalling riearly £250, 0Q0, brQUght more ' than 600 boys from ' Great Britaih for farm training. Earthmite Reappears With its existence "established ^t spattered points between Clive .m the south and Gisborne in the nprth, the red-leggp4d earth mite is reported to be emerging again from the dproiant state ihtq which the pest subsides during the winter mopths. it was revealed by an official of the Departnienf' of Agriculture at Hastings that the mite's

activity had aiready oepn observed, but it was early yet to say wFether br not that' aptivjty was PB ab increased scale. The official* said that while the reappearance of the mite was not viewed with any alarm, it was felt that the mite was bere to stay. All that pould be done was to apply control measures. ^.rrangements have been made hy the directors of the Leyin Go-op. Dafry Co., Ltd., for Mr. A. H. Ward, senior technical officer of the New ^Zealand Dairy Boar.d, pg giye an ad'dress at the 'annual general nieeting nf suppliers of "the cdmpany tomorrow. Mr. Ward's subject will be the New Zealand Dairy Board in relation to 'dairy farmers, and as he is well qualified tp speak bn the matter, his talk will be oi interest to all dairy farmers/ **/