Chathams sheep seminar

Press, 15 October 1982, Page 25

Chathams sheep seminar

Farmers on the Chatham Islands will have a chance next month to attend a sheep seminar, the first of its type to be held on the Chathams. The two-day seminar is being organised by Mr Lindsay Galloway, sheep and beef officer with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in in Christchurch. The seminar will include sessions, on sheep breeding, management, and feeding as well as wool and diseases.

Mr Galloway, who has been thinking about and planning the seminar for the last two years, is well-known among farmers on the Chathams as a result of his sixmonthly visits during the last 16 years.

Mr Galloway said he had arranged for a' high standard of speakers to address the seminar. The whole team will be on the Chathams from Otcober 27 to November 3, with the seminar being held on Monday and Tuesday, November 1 and 2. Attendance at the seminar was important for farmers from a farming point of view and would show that Chatham Islanders were willing to accept opportunities when presented to them, said Mr Galloway. Speakers will include Norm Hart, a farm advisory officer at Lincoln; Alister South, farm advisory officer (animal husbandry), Christ-

church;- Ray Dunick, South Island chief shearing instructor with the New Zealand Wool Board; Mike Evans, veterinarian with the M.A.F., Christchurch; Bryan Bradley, production officer with the Wool Board; Brian Taylor, wool manager Wrightson NMA, Ltd. Christchurch; Alan Sturzaker, N.Z. wool manager for Wrightsons, Wellington; and John Harris, machinery representative for Wrightsons, Christchurch. Farmers and people interested in farming are asked to enrol for the seminar with the local secretary of Federated Farmers, Mr Gavin Stillwell, or the president, Mr Joe Tuanui.