Japanese Plan To Test Unusual Plough In N.Z.

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31363, 8 May 1967, Page 12

Japanese Plan To Test Unusual Plough In N.Z.

Representatives of a Japanese firm in Christchurch for this week’s world ploughing contest hope to demonstrate and test an unusual plough in Canterbury. It is a three-furrow plough with a rotary pulveriser driven by the power take-off of the tractor, so that when the furrow is turned it is immediately broken up and a seed-bed prepared in the one operation. A further refinement is the fitting of a seed and fertiliser box so that seed is sown and fertiliser spread all in the one operation. The Japanese are Mr K. Takakita, a director of Takakita Agricultural! Implements Manufacturing Company, Ltd., of Nabari, and Dr. S. Niizeki, a consultant to the company. The other plough that the firm has brought to New Zea-

land is a two-furrow implement with the advantage that soil will not stick to the mouldboards. It is desigped for work in volcanic soils and the two men believe that it may have an application in the North Island where they plan to test it

Mr K. C. Gajadhar, a Suva solicitor, has been appointed legal officer at the Marine Department, Wellington. He attended Wanganui Technical College from 1935 and graduated from Victoria University. After two years with the Lands and Survey Department he worked for a law firm at Napier, and then for nine years was in private practice in Fiji. Mr Gajadhar was born in Suva in 1922 and is married with three sons. He has returned to New Zealand to further their education. .: