REEFTON NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 June 1925, Page 3

REEFTON NOTES

(Our Own Correspondent).

EEEFTOX, June 27. Mr A. L. Panckhurst, of the' staff of the National Bank of'New Zealand at lieefton, has received notice of his transfer on promotion to Wellington and leaves in a lew days- Mr Paaickhurst will be much nfissed in football circles as he has been an active playing member of the Pirates Bootball Cmb since its inception. The Shop Assistants’ football team kit lor Karamea, by Newman’s car this altemboh; Opening on July 14, a series of lee. lures will be delivered at Reefton on subjects of much-importance to every farmer in the district, The series will commence with a lecture by Mr J. 0. Kerrigan, of the Live Stock Division of the Agi-icultuihl Department, on ‘■Diseases mid Conditions Affecting Dairy Cows”; ‘‘Agriculture,” by Mr Ward; ‘‘Pastures,”' by E. Bruce Levy;

■ ••Sheep,” D. J. Cook; "Swine ManI agement,” K. W. Gorringe. All the above gentlemen airb officers of the ; Agricultural Department, and experts in their respective 'branches, and as the matter has been taken up -by the GO'l- ' den Cohst Co-operative Dairy Coy., in conjunction with the local branches of ' the Farmers’ Union, it is to be hoped a full attendance will be recorded as the Agricultural Department has been asijlttetl of a guarantee, and it is hoped that all the farmers in the Grey and Bullet' Valleys will make a special effort to l be present, and avail themselves of the important information that will be imparted by the lecturers in the various subjects that will be dealt with. Mr Geo. Pascoe, .secretary -of the Golden Coast Company, states that Mr C. S. Dalgleish, Fields Instructor to the. Agricultural Department. has spared no pains in arranging the visit of the Departmental ofHeers to Beefton. so as to obtain the ' same privileges for the Coast farmers as those afforded the farmers who reside close to the larger centres, and it behoves all farmers who reside among us to muster in full force and show

that they are fully alive to- their own interests. A 10-20 International McCormickDeering, Tractor, to the order of N. W. Gibbs was recently delivered in the Maruia district, and put through a series of exhaustive tests on several properties in the district. On Mr. Hunter’s property the capacity of the machine in ploughing was tried out, and a full muster of all farmers in the Maruia district turned out to view the operations which was successfully carried out. The next test took place at Wallis Crofts, after crossing the river where the tractor was employed pulling stumps and general clearing work. At this place a log was shifted and hauled a distance of a quarter of a mile. This piece of timber was 21ft. long and 3ft 6in in diameter. The next test was on Mr. Reid’s property where the machine was yoked up to a saw, and its efficiency was again proved. Mr. Gibbs handled the tractor from the time of its arrival and with very little instruction soon mastered the machine even though he had no previous experience with one of that type.