NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2594, 16 June 1923, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

One of the oldest and most successful settlers in the Carnarvon district has just learnt something about farming through the medium of his daughter. The girl is a member of the school agricultural club and (relates an exchange), grew a crop of mangolds in her father’s property for competition. The plot was judged recently and yielded at the rate of 70 tons to the acre. “I have been on this place for 40 years, and I never grew.mangolds here before because 1 thought the land unsuitable,” said the father. A new British lighting aeroplane, constructed by Vickers, is ready to undergo its final flying trials. It is a two-seater, fitted with a single Napier Lion engine. It is expected that the machine, even when fully equipped with a crew, machine guns, and afmnments, will have a speed of 150 miles an hour, or thirty to forty more than any fighting machine in the Government air service. The fighting ’planes eventually ahave been sanctioned.

dopted by the Air Ministry will be ordered on a considerable scale to replace the present machines, and equip the new air squadrons which In a speech at Christchurch on Saturday, Mr Holland, Leader of the Labour Party, said Mr Massey should not attend the Imperial Conference as a dictator, but should carry with him definite instructions especially with regard to the Treaty of Versailles. Mr Massey should he instructed to promote Ihe establishment of intimate relations with Russia. Personally, said Mr Holland, he was not opposed to New Zealand being represented at the Imperial Conference, and if a Labour Government were in power he would favour New Zealand being represented at every one of them, but New Zealand’s representatives should certainly take with them instructions regarding the will of the people on the various questions of the day.