NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 3938, 21 February 1920, Page 2

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Tlip Mi'ori and the Prince. t mtoubledlv, ihe oiilsiaiiding leai'ltc oi the c,,iiiiug \ (sit ot the Prill-". oi Wale.-, svill be tiie - welcome tho Slaoii, will estcn.l lo him. He will 1.-' lull o! expectations, because he ha i hotd iioiu 1.-oth bis royal pau-uis ot iiie 'umpleue-s of Rototmi'.s festival ~n their vi.-U. Ul' comae, ihe Maorii.iixlcis will seek In excel thvim.elycs this time, so that the -son will be abb. io tell hi- lather and mother and sister ami brothers that New Zealand had something- now to shosv him. And he has with him an otlieial ciiiematogr.ipher to pi use upon the sciet.ii in Buckingham Palace that ihe Maoiis ate -till great entertainers. -Sir. Massey is seeing to it that the Maoris get the ,-hance to make good, lor the names are receiving a large and goiieroiis invitation troin the GuVeinmem to go up to Rofortta ill tho State's expenseiice on railsvays and ship-, free boaid ami lodging-- but the children are to be left at home, becuuV- of the tea,- ut an epidemic. All the Maoris will bo there, and as they sell their Tetiakoe' the Pj-ince will svonder svhat they want a tin of cocoa, tor!

On the Scientific Side

Once again tho directors of tlm C.isuhiuii Institute, svhich tho gClier -us Nol.-onian I'uunded lot the development oi the scientific side ot our lit,- in Nesv Zealand, tue to be congia mini-A upon the wisdom svith winch iiiey .ue slowly building up the expert

slat! lor the. institute. When the directors appointed Prof. Easterlield, of Victoria College, as the head of tho Institute they did better than svell, because that savant stood head and shoulders above all men in Nesv Zealand in the field ol original research, svith practical lesults. Feilding folkhas,- sat under Prof. Fasterlield as a lecturer, and found him to be a scientist svho translated technicalities into nlam English. The Casvthron directors next, appointed Mr. Theodore Rmg. a clever young. Wolliugtoniaii who has had great experience abroad do.pite lit- youth, as prof. E'aster--li-'!d- lirst. lieutenant. Tims another original re-earch man has been secured. Nosy word comes of ihe appointment of Dr. Till.yard to tako charge ol the Biological Department. Sydney ['nis'or.-itVs loss is Nesv Zealand's gam. Prof. Tillyard recently did good svork us an investigator of the disease amongst trout in Lake Taupo. And he gave :l series of lectures over here which prosed him to be just the Biologist for the Nelson institute-.

For Closer Settlement

Something of a surprise packet wilt open the e.ves ot readers svho scan the I bird pas.;,) of today-, issue of the Si a H and catch the attractive piece of publicity i-'gaiding the cutting up of the remaining portion of the Kopanc Estate adjoining the soldiers' settlement. The owner o| the 920 acres now ollered lor sale has \ cry wisely cut the area into 2G farms, ranging from 21) to -IB acres in area. If the osviier and the auctioneers agree that no tsvo sections oi this rich land shall be sold to any one man, the, cutting up ot the 920-aero patch should bring '.'(> farmers into Foilding's suburb. This svill prove a decided fillip to the intensive culture policy that is to help New Zealand pay its war debts by dcs eloping productiveness. It is claimed that the Kopane area comprises some ot the best laud in tho Dominion

- a bit' claim svhieli lias already found proof in what, the soldier settlers am! other farmers have done in that conntrv. That tho land is valuable goes svithout- saying, hence the compactness of the dairy farms into svhich it, has been subdis'ided. The sucetiss of the Ivopauo release svill probably iv-

duce other owners of rich lauds in tjie Feildine district to let them go for the satisfying of the land hunger that prevails hereabouts. The less the aggregation, the greater the production.