NELSON NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 117, 13 November 1929, Page 9

NELSON NEWS

BEITISH FAEMEES' TOUR

ITINERARY PROTEST

(From Our Own Correspondent.) NELSON, 12th November. When the original itinerary was drawn up for the party of British farmers from Great Britain, Canada, and South Africa, who will arrive in NewZealand in February on a tour of the Dominion, Nelson was included in the tour. It was then arranged that the pirty would break up into two sections, but it has now been decided that members will travel in one body, and as a result Nelson has been omitted from the itinerary. At to-day's meeting of th» executive committee of the Nelson Provincial Farmers' Union it was pointed out that Nelson was practically the only province not now included in. the tour. Under the present arrangements the party will arrive in Blenheim on Bth March and leave for Christchurch on 10th March. Members of the committee expressed the opinion that Nelson would be very attractive to the visitors at that time of the year, with the apple, hop and tobacco industries m full swing. Finally it was decided to make a strong jprotest to the Dominion Executive and urge that the province be included in the tour. The services of the Nelson Provincial Progress League are being enlisted to lend weight to the protest. After a few days' illness the death occurred yesterday of a well-known and respected Nelson citizen, Mr. G. E. Nanearrow. Born in Cornwall, Mr. 'Nancarrow at the age of 19 went to America and from there to Australia. He came to New Zealand in 1877 to take the position of bandmaster of the Queenstown Band. In 1884 he came to Nelson, having been selected as bandmaster of the Nelson Garrison Band. On the Bijou Band being formed in Nelson hebecame conductor of that body. Some years were then, spent in Blenheim, where Mr. Nancarrow was conductor of the Garrison and Hibernian Bands. Thirty years ago he returned to Nelson, where lie had lived ever since, but taking no further part in band affairs owing to chest troubles contracted in the Cornish mines in his youthful days. The late Mr. Nancarrow, besides beingan excellent conductor, was one of the finest cornet players in the Dominion. He married Miss Ellen Allport, of Biehmond, who died about five years ago, and the family comprises two sons— Mr. A. G. Nancarrow, of Nelson, and Mr. N. A. Nancarrow, of "Wellington. Mr. Nancarrow recently celebrated his: 80th birthday, and had enjoyed good health practically up to the last.