Mota Lava

Assistant Agriculture Officer (AAO) for Mota Lava, John Antas said, “ The reason for this demonstration is to capture the interest of famers coming to the market house and encourage them to utilize any available resources and land in their backyard for home gardening.”

Antas raised vegetable seedlings in a nursery before giving them to farmers.

“I have provided technical information on backyard gardening to farmers and at the same time assisting them with their backyard gardens.”

The boys aged 11, 14 and 16 were last seen in an aluminium boat on Friday afternoon.

They had reportedly gone fishing.

A search party on Friday failed to locate the boys.

An aerial search was carried out but heavy rain, lightning and thunder hampered the search carried out by mission pilot and Doctor Mark Turnbull in his small aircraft.

A full day of search was carried out yesterday and the aircraft was grounded at Motalava airstrip due to bad weather.