NEW FARM CLUB

Press, Volume C, Issue 29488, 14 April 1961, Page 18

NEW FARM CLUB

Formation At Cheviot The South Island’s third farm improvement club is now functioning in the Chevit district. The Cheviot Farm Improvement Club has a membership of about 20, with farms mainly in the Cheviot district, but extending from Motunau to Claverley. These farms range from straight tussock enterprises to mixed cropping and sheep properties. The farm advisory service of the farm management and rural valuation department at Canterbury Agricultural College is providing the advisory

service for the new club. This work will be done by Mr A. Don, under the direction of Mr J. H. Oldfield, who is in charge of the farm advisory service. The advisory officer, who is a field officer on the staff of the farm advisory service, will spend about half of his time serving the Cheviot club. Mr Don, whose home is in North Otago, trained as a rural field cadet and in 1950 gained his diploma of valuation and farm management at Canterbury Agricultural College. For two years he was in the employment of the State Advances Corporation, and then for four years he was a fat lamb drafter in Central Otago. For the last four years he has been manager of the stud sheep, experimental sheep and stud and beef fattening cattle at Massey Agricultural College. The chairman of the new club is Mr C. T. White. Mr B. C. Wright is vice-chairman, and Mr Tom Barnes is secretary.