Career for a Kiwi

New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 330, 19 October 1945, Page 8

Career for a Kiwi

HERE was a delightful naturalness and colloquialism in a short talk from main National stations the other evening -an outline of facilities for farm training for Kiwis, given by Jack Hepburn. The facilities sounded varied and excellent, but Mr. Hepburn was concerned not only with describing them, but with selling the idea that they should be used. He told us that one joker, who had farmed for 15 years before the war, went. very crook when someone suggested he should take a refresher course; and there were others who agreed with the old maxim that the one and only thing to learn about farming was how to get up in the morning. With the world of agriculture still uncertain as to what will be required of it in the next few years, Mr, Hepburn’s talk came as a practical corollary to one heard a night or two before from 1YA. In this, G.-A. Holmes described how during the war the British farmer had ploughed and drained land which had lain idle since the menace of Napoleon; how he had changed his methods and raised not what suited his soil, his climate and his traditions, but what was required for the people’s food. Right through, said Mr. Holmes, it was the better educated farmer who had more willingly and successfully adapted himself to the changing face of Britain.