FUNDS FOR NEW GLIDER

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27678, 7 June 1955, Page 10

FUNDS FOR NEW GLIDER

CANTERBURY CLUB GROWS POTATOES

Members of the Canterbury Gliding Club hope that potatoes will help to pay for a new high performance glider they plan to add to their fleet. A crop of 10 acres of Red Dakotas is now lying ready to dig at Yaldhiirst and club members had hoped to make an all-out effort at the week-end to harvest the potatoes, but the weather intervened and the crop is still in the ground. Three club members went to the paddock, with its long rows of browning haulms, yesterday morning, and when a tractor did not arrive to tow the mechanical digger, they set to work to dig a few of the potatoes by hand.

The crop has been grown on land leased from a.relative of a club member. The land was worked up and the potatoes planiMhg a but the club hopesMßfave the heavy cost of picking up ’fife potatoes by using its own members for the job. The club already has two gliders, a ’rai two-seater training glider, and an Eon baby intermediate single-seater sailplane. Instruction with the trainer will cease at the end of the month, for the winter, but the other craft will be flown occasionally during the winter months.

The Canterbury Club is not the only gliding club in the province to be entering the produce business to build un its funds to buy gliders. The South Canterbury Club also has plans to buy another glider. It is reported to be growing carrots to swell its funds.