MARLBOROUGH NEW

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21646, 3 December 1935, Page 18

MARLBOROUGH NEW

GOOD PROSPECTS FOR jj COMING HARVEST M SHORTAGE OF LABOUR 1 Iffl?jM (BPSCUi TO XHS PBK88.) |'|H BLENHEIM. December |J9 The coming harvest promisee tolM the best in the Marlborough distjjjH for some years. The wet weather ~4§h| tog the spring and early swmner £■ been of tremendous benefit to.farmfM and there is an abundance of, feedJjjjH farms in all parts of Crops have come away partkuislH >well and are now filling out ni&ljH Pea crops in most parts are ]oeij|H promising and with favourable ther there will be some bumper 7)§§H The present indications are that «■ will be a shortage of farm the harvesting period. "IIH More than 160 men are evptaMgfl under an unemployment belief scbjjHl on levelling operations at Sua drome in preparation for the st**|i|H commercial air services. This w9|H together with the sewerage scbensMH other minor works, has absorbed fgjMH tically all the available labour. 9H aerodrome work is expected to 4mH tmue until well on in January HH before that time harvesting opera|M|H should be in fuU swing. WpttiwdHß sibility of a scarcity of labour teflH vesting and the indication of ttMH crops, it will be no easy proldes*j|Hl farmers to get the harvest in. 'WmM Ttramaal * Mr E. P. Meachen, recently «ImmH member of Parliament forWafeai£ajH| for Wellington to attend the of the Labour party. jfiM Mr A. C. Nathan has left ftst C3MB church to attend toe amioai omSSBBi cation of the Grand Lodge of land, which will begin on WclfteiHfl Mr E. Horrobin, manager Bank of Australasia. Napier, is sjMHH ing a holiday at The Delta. iPBM Motor-Cyettst bjesei JB Mr Robert Lyford met with an dent on Saturday night while fJMH home on his motor-cycle. Hbße JHflB listing a slight bend on the IbM road extension, the motor-cycle sUsaMH in a patch of loose grave] aasMtelsM ford was thrown heavily oa tolMi road. Mr Lyford received a t**MflH the head, slight injury to one astt'«H9 concussion. He is in the Wairasi''friflH pital and is progressing feveagablK. ■ljm ■apart La—b Cauqiemi— JB| There are about 49 entries ior INH Marlborough district lamb eoinpstilMH which is to be conducted at the"iHM ton Freezing Works on WedecslflH Each entry consists of three bsnbsiMgH of which 45 are to be selected ** «| forward to the Smithfield Market Wl participate in the Dominion fat Mfl competition. The selection made on toe hooks by Mr J DtvsAmHb one of the New Zealand Meat HHgl ducers* Board's supervising gnsaHngl The competition will be made a 7WMM day for farmers, and the New &JriMJW Refrigerating Company win luiuilWM visitors to the works with a light rmß