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Chronicle (Levin), 10 September 1949, Page 4

Personal

• Miss P. Sloan, who was granted leave of absence from the staff of Marlborough College, Blenheim, fo take up a special teaching position at the reception and trainIhg centre for new immigrants at Pahiatua, has now completed her term and after a short vacation will return to Blenheim. The d'eath has bccurred of Mr. Samuel Stephen Timbs, the Wanganui butcher who was mainly responsible for the method of trimming export carcases to ensure that the United Kingdom would get the greatest possible quantity of lean meat in its New Zealand shipments, and who also figured in the establishment pf the chilled beef championshi-ps at ohe Wanganui A. and P. Association 's Shows.

Grass Seed Mixing. One of the largest amounts of grass seed to be mixed in New Zea7and for a number of years is at present massed on the floor of the store of a Palmerston North firm. The seed weighs a total of 300 tons and Is valued at £65,000.' It consists of various grass seeds to comprise a permanent pasture mik. The seed was brought from dealers throqghout the' country by the Government seed purchasing officer for the Lands and Survey Department and will be sent to Rotorua, where , it will 1 be sown over 16,000 acres of undeveloped pumice land which is now being broken in. There are only two firms in New Zealand who have the floor space big enough to handle such a large consignment of seed and they are both in Palmerston North.