FEILDINg NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 13, 23 December 1911, Page 17

FEILDINg NOTES.

* _« Laxge numbers of settlors were in-town yesterday, mid a roaring trado was done in Christmas business in the shops. The •Wiinganui Education Board has aproposal afoot to engage an agricultural expert as director of the I'eilding..Tech-. • nical School.. T»'o 'men.-:at. tho Hawkes:,bury Agricultural Collego/in.Xcw South. : Wales'had been singledout, aud.-it was- ■ hoped to get one of them. :: The board also • has an eye on a piece of land- in oloso touch with Feilding on .which to put up , a building for an'agricultural college, and ■ ■ which- could also be utilised ill other tospects. This Would put l'eilding-some-what ahead of other 'districts-is rospect . to the teaching of agriculture. - A line of Lambs, killed at tho Feilding Abattoir this .week for the Christmas trade, averaged (iO'lb., the-heaviest , turn- . ing tho-Scale at 721b. i'or this time of ■ tho yc<lr theso weights will take some ]>ou.ting. Tho lambs were bred-by Mr. Moore, of Awahuri, and they furnish a goo<l illustration of the stock-raising capabilities of tho district. . Speaking at tho Technioal School on 1 Thursday evening the chairman of tho Wanganui Education Board stated that •- Mr. L. J. Watkin was shortly to.sever- ■ his connection with the. Tcchmo-xj' School 1 in order to enter a wider field. -Mr. Wat- .' kin had come to Feilding a Minpleto stranger and, while he was nil artist, ho had also proved a capablo business man too. This was worthy of note, for it was seldom that they mot such a combination. The board had now (Mr. Pirani went on to say) mado him an increase of salary with work in his particular profession which would take him away from Feild- t ing, though not altogether. "Speaking sub- ' sequeatiy Mr. AVatkin Raid that lie would b make no secret of tho faot that lie ti would be pleosed to get away from tho official work of tho Technical School. Ho felt that he was not born for a business | ■ career and, if he had any good in him, ii it jrafl ia ths directiott of art, r ■