AUSTRALIAN FARMERS’ VISIT

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 93, 14 January 1936, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN FARMERS’ VISIT

Notes From Hawke’s Bay

Dominion Special Service. Napier, January 13. On Thursday, January 23, a party of farmers and executives of primary industry from Adelaide, South Australia, will arrive in Napier, and on Friday will be occupied with a tour of the Hawke's Bay flatland districts, and an inspection of various phases of farming activity. The itinerary for this tour is being arranged by the Hawke’s Bay branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, and the party will be accompanied by officers of the Live-stock and Fields Division of the Department of Agriculture. It is anticipated that there will he approximately 20 in the party that will visit Hawke’s Bay, and included in this number will be Mr. IV. 11. Lyons, M.P., chairman of directors of a big fertiliser manufacturing firm, and Col. Butler, the well-known South Australian agricultural journalist. The party will leave on the Saturday morning by cars for Wairakei.

Havelock Tar-seating. At the last meeting of the Havelock North Town Board, it was decided to take the necessary steps to have a poll of ratepayers on a proposal to borrow the sum of £3500 to carry out a schedule of tarsealing, ; involving approximately four miles of roads in the town board’s area. A report from the roads committee recommended the taking of such steps, and stated that the committee was of the opinion that if the proposal was adopted, no increase in the rates would be necessary. The 'schedule of tar-sealing attached to the committee's report specified 39,216 square yards, and work on footpaths was estimated to cost £409/10/-. Intermediate School.

At a meeting of representatives of school committees and of the Hastings High School Board, it was unanimously decided to confirm a decision reached at a previous meeting that the Government be urged to establish an intermediate school at Hastings, to be biiilt on the Railway Road seven-acre site owned by the Education Board. The meeting was presided over by the chairman of the Education Board (Hawke’s Bay), the Mayor of Hastings,. Mr. G. A. Maddison. It wgs decided that in the event of the request being refused, the Government be urged to build a new Central School on the Railway Road site, the old property to be disposed of.

Napier Airman’s Success. Mr. Clifford Beene, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Beene, old residents of Napier, left

New Zealand shortly before the earthquake for Canada, imbued with the desire to establish himself in aviation. He was without the funds which would have been necessary for him to enter a -college fertile purpose, but such was his enthusiasm that during the comparatively short space of time which has elapsed since he left New Zealand, he has secured his certificates for engineering, plane construction, instruction, and as a commercial pilot. He is also an expert wireless operator and telegraphist, which he learned while a member of the P. and T. Department at Napier. It is stated that there is only one other man connected with aviation in Canada at the present time who is so widely qualified.