Additional Blooms

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27211, 14 October 1949, Page 6

Additional Blooms

Although visitors to Central Otago at present naturally expect the orchards to be snow-washed with blossom, Miller’s Flat ofTers additional splashes of colour which cause many passers-by to stop. The colour comes from hundreds of tulips which are grown commercially in three or four properties beside the main road. The earlier hyacinth crop is hearly finished and the growers do not consider that the tulips will be at their peak for another week 'or .two, but already there are ample blooms to make the tulip gardens vivid and arresting.

Memorial Trust Fund In five years a trust fund- established by a Gisborne district family in memory of a member who lost his life while serving in the Royal New Zealand Air Force in the Pacific has distributed £14,893 to charitable, educational and religious organisations. The trust commemorates Flying Officer James Nelson Williams, son of' Mr and Mrs H. B, Williams, of Turihaua, who was reported missing on operations in the Pacific on December 19.- 1943. The capital funds were contributed by members of the family and permanently'invested with a.view to the income being available for periodic distribution.