NELSON NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 28 January 1929, Page 14

NELSON NEWS

HARVESTING- THE EIIUIT

TAHUNA BEACH CONTROL

(From Our Own Correspondent.) NELSON, 2Gth January. The following is a list of the successful candidates from the Nelson Provinces who have reached the standard of qualification for Senior National Scholarship:—Arietta G. Creasy, Mary B. Griffin (Nelson Girls' College), Eleanor. M. Senior (Motueka District High School), Morice Keldes, George 11.I 1. Patersou, Ernest P. Sanders, David M. Walker (Nelson College), David M'Cormick (Reef ton), Ralph Thawlcy (Motueka District High Scliool).. Tho drought about this time last year affected the attendance at tho Nelson trots. This year conditions are very different, and tho . club should have everything in its favour providing tho weather is satisfactory. Tho fact of llu second day being a Saturday should swell the attendance. Kntrios for tho various events are good, substantial support being given by owners from Canterbury, Wellington, Wairarapa, Marlborough, and the West Coast. H.M.S. Diomede will visit Nelson during her forthcoming cruise to the South Island. She will arrive here on 3rd April from Timaru, and remain till Sth April. A total of 1134 entries has been received for the Golden Bay A. and P. Association's Annual Show at Takaka. on Ist February.

' The harvesting of small fruits in the Motueka and Riwaka districts is almost finished, and the workers will bo switched on to picking plums, peaches, apricots, etc. Tho apple orchards, almost without exception, are looking healthy and clean, and everywhere orchardists are busy preparing for tho lacking and packing of export fruit. Mr. and Mrs. A. P. D. East, with their family, left last night for Auckland. Mr. East has been promoted to au inspectorship under the Education Department.

The Ngaio. struck two bad passages in the Straits this week. Yesterday she was Jate arriving in Wellington, and to-day did not arrive in Nelson till 2 p.m. There haa not been the slightest sign of rough weather in Nelson these last few days, although it Las been exceptionally rough in Wellington. At last night's meeting of the City Council a proposal from the Tahuna Sands Association to take over control of portion of the reservo and dressing sheds was agreed to. The association is prepared to pay the expenses of a caretaker and to keep the Reserve in reasonable condition. All fees collected are to go to the association, and if the arrangement is found to be satisfactory at the end of twelve months, it is to be renewed for a term of three years.

There was some opposition to the name "Pioneers' Park," adopted by the City Council at its last meeting, for the piece of ground known as ifing's Acre, but after the matter had been again discussed it was decided that the name should stand.

There has been some controversy about finding the biggest onion grown in Nelson lately, but the record of Mr. E. W. M'Lean, of Wakefield, in growing 9701b from a 6d packet of seed, will be hard to beat. The variety, "Ailsa Craig," is transplanted in the ordinary way with no special manuring except one topdressing of two parts of sulphate of potash and one part sulphate of, ammonia. Threo of the best onions turned the scale at over 91b, the heaviest weighing 3Jlb, while 30 onions picked at random turned the scale at over 601b."