Flower Garden:

Te Ao Hou, September 1955, Page 44

Flower Garden: Complete sowing and planting of tender annuals. Continue to plant dahlias. All flowering shrubs which have finished flowering should be pruned. Plant chrysanthemums in very rich well-manured soil. Sweet Peas should be at their best especially in the Auckland district. Should the weather become very dry hoe the ground lightly and mulch with lawn clippings or similar material to retain moisture. A secretary of the Y.M.C.A., Mr Temaio Paiki, left New Zealand in June as the Maori representative of a New Zealand delegation to attend, in Paris, the centennial of the establishment of the world's alliance of the Y.M.C.A. Mr Paiki has been in the service of the Y.M.C.A. for over 30 years. He comes from South Canterbury. * * * Flying Officer W. H. Morete, of Dunedin, was a member of the crew of a Bristol freighter of No. 41 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force, which in early June undertook its first supply-dropping mission in Malaya. The captain and crew of the aircraft were congratulated by the senior operations officer in Kuala Lumpur on a first-class drop.