Farm Club Advisers

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31224, 23 November 1966, Page 10

Farm Club Advisers

A fourth adviser has been appointed to Lauriston Farm Improvement Club and another has been appointed to replace Mr J. W. Kinviff, who will resign on March 3, to take up a similar position in Australia.

The Lauriston club is the pioneer farm improvement club in the South Island.

Mr Kinvig’s place will be taken by Mr R. L. Engelbrecht, of Oxford. Mr Engelbrecht has been a member of this year’s diploma of valuation and farm management course at Lincoln College. The club chairman, Mr S. F. Jackson, announced that Mr J. Tavendale, of Ngapara, North Otago, who has been completing his bachelor of agricultural science degree at the college this year in the farm management option, will be the fourth adviser. Mr Jackson said it was hoped that Mr Tavendale would start with a new group of club members early in the new year.

Mr Kinvig, aged 28, has been with the Lauriston club for almost six years. Born in Ashburton and educated at

the Ashburton High School, he gained the diploma of agriculture and the diploma of valuation and farm management at Lincoln College. Before joining the club as an adviser, he was with the Valuation Department in Timaru for about three months and in Invercargill for about 15 months. In Australia he will be stationed at Walcha in the northern tablelands about 40 miles from Armidale with a farm advisory service which has been operating for about two years.

Farms in the area average about 2300 acres and are on undulating to hill country. They carry sheep and cattle. The sheep are Merino, Border

Leicester Merino cross and Romney and the cattle are mainly Herefords. The farms produce fat lambs and wool from wethers.

Where country has been improved New Zealand white clover has been used. The area is one that has suffered badly from drought and Mr Kinvig said last evening that he had been told that sheep had been reduced to 39 per cent of their original numbers and cattle to 14 per cent Another member of this year’s valuation and farm management course at Lincoln, Mr J. G. Newson, has been appointed the first adviser to the new Western Southland Farm Improvement Club.