Poultry Instructor From Wales

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30079, 13 March 1963, Page 2

Poultry Instructor From Wales

One of the Department of Agriculture’s poultry instructors in Christchurch is a young Welshwoman, Mrs Kona Lloyd, who came to New Zealand with her husband nearly two years ago.

Mrs Lloyd was born in Angelsey, in North Wales. From school she went to a Farm Institute in Denbighshire to take a one-year certificate course in general agriculture and then worked for a year to gain practical experience before taking a two-year course in poultry at the Harper Adams Agricultural College at Newport, Shropshire. Mrs Lloyd worked for a time on a small breeder’s farm in Angelsey, then on a large turkey, duck and broiler farm in Cheshire and finally at a hatchery in Shropshire. From a two-year course at Harper Adams she emerged with a national diploma in poultry. Before coming to New Zealand, Mrs Lloyd was lecturing for a general poultry course of one year’s duration at the Lancashire Farm Institute at Preston. The course was one of several conducted at the institute, which was operated by the Lancashire County Council, and it was attended mainly by farmers’ sons and daughters. After completing the course, the students either ' went back home, took a job on a poultry farm or went on to the Har-

per Adams Agricultural College to take the diploma course. * Back To Field When she first arrived In New Zealand two yean ago this Easter, Mrs Lloyd decided to take a break from poultry and for a time she worked at the Christchurch Hospital. But in August last year she joined the Department of Agriculture in Christchurch. Mrs Lloyd thinks that poul-try-farming in New Zealand is a better proposition than in Britain. Poultry-keep-ing was more advanced

in Britain, but there were certainly some good strains of stock in New Zealand and what was most important, there was not the disease problem. Margins of profit in both egg production and broiler production were also very low in Britain. Mrs Lloyd has no wish to go back to Britain’s climate after sampling Canterbury’s weather. She has a realistic attitude to her new home. She says it is a matter of adapting oneself to one's new country. Mrs Lloyd lives at Diamond Harbour.