Mr. E. B. Glanville, Popular Officer, Leaving Northland

Northern Advocate, 17 June 1941, Page 7

Mr. E. B. Glanville, Popular Officer, Leaving Northland

One of the most popular officers of the Agriculture Department in Northland, Mr. E. B. (“Ned”) Glanville, instructor in agriculture in • Whangarei, leaves the North within a month, on transfer to Auckland. Mr. Glanville. will be taking the place of Mr. J. E. Bell, who has been transferred to the position of Land Utilisation Officer at Wellington, while Mr. E. H. Arnold, now stationed at Dargaville, will be coming to Whangarei. Thirteen Years in Northland Mr. Glanville is a graduate of Lincoln College (Canterbury) having there gained his diploma in agriculture. After leaving college he learnt the practical side of agriculture in Canterbury and Hawke’s Bay, from where he was appointed to the Agriculture Department and stationed at Whangarei as assistant to Mr. C. J. Hamblyn, these two officers carrying out the advisory work in the whole of Northland. This apointment was 13 years ago, and since then Mr. Glanville has been uninterruptedly in the department’s service in Northland. In 1932 he was in charge of the development work in connection with the reclamation of the sand-dune country on the West Coast, near Dargaville, and as the result of this work this country is now cut up into 50-acre farms yielding very high production. Various Activities Later, Mr. Glanville was appointed Agricultural Instructor, with headquarters at Dargaville, and then, in 1936, he was back again in Whangarei, when Mr. Hamblyn was transferred. While at Dargaville, Mr. Glanville was instrumental in placing the Northern Wairoa Experimental Farm on a sound basis. He was prominent in the formation of the school calf clubs till this activity was taken over by the Education Department. Then came the Young Farmers’ Club movement, and the success of this in Northland was largely due to Mr. Glanville’s efforts. Top-Dressing Tests During the past few years, Mr. Glanville has been consulted by the Public Works Department in regard to the grassing of the aerodromes in Northland, while his own department has carried out about 200 top-dressing and pasture strain trials on practically every soil type in Northland. This work has been greatly facilitated during the past year or so by the soil survey work carried out by officers of the soil survey section. The information gained from these tests has been, and will continue to be, of great benefit to Northland farmers. At the outbreak of war, ML Glanville was at the head of the Primary Production Council in this area until the council was reconstituted, and he was appointed to his present position of local organiser.

Has Helped Northland

Mr. Glanville has long been an enthusiast for the progressive development of Northland, and has done a great deal to prove that even on the most inferior types of soil, which a few years ago were regarded as waste land, profitable farming can be undertaken. His final contribution towards the development of the gumlands is a bulletin which he is now compiling in conjunction with the Soil Survey Officer (Mr. N. H. Taylor).