YOUNG FARMERS CLUB

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 43, 12 February 1946, Page 7

YOUNG FARMERS CLUB

MEETING AT TANEATUA

BRANCH REFORMED

At a well attended meeting at Taneatua on the evening of February s;<5 ;< the Taneatua Young Farmers’ Club which went into recess for the duration of the Avar was resuscitated. Many Young Farmers’ Clubs went into recess because of members joining the armed forces and leaving insufficient junior members to carry on but now that demobilisation has proceeded for some time the resuscitation of these clubs is called for. Tn this district of Eastern Bay of Plenty there remains only the Edgeeumbe Y.F.C. to and the District Committee intends to call a meeting for this purpose during March. There are now four senior clubs t) Waimana # Opotiki, Thornton and Taneatua in the district and tAA'o junior clubs at the District High Schools at Whakatane and Opotiki. The four senior clubs are very keen and active and now that school has taken up again we hope, that the two junior clubs will JikcAA'isc join in the activities of. the movement. Coming events arc the holding of a field day at Mr J. Rae’s Raeburn Jersey Stud at Taneatua next Tuesday ? February lat which the inter-club stock judging competition will be conducted and from the results of which a team will! ib;a chosen to represent Eastern Bay of Plenty against Western Bay’s team for tlie Stephenson Challenge Shield. This contest will be held at Paengaroa towards the. end of February.

There Avere a number of visitors from ether cluts at the meeting at Taneatua and among them were Donald Ross (Te Puke) a Dominion past president; Pat Nichol (Te Puke), vice-chairman of the Auckland Provincial Council; G. Spratt (Paengaroa); H. C. White (Waimana) District Chairman; J. T. Cain (Waimana); Des Woolfield (Waimana); A. H. Adams, T. Mcx-

ted and M. Law (Thornton) and. B. F. Grace a past advisory president of the Taneatua Y.F.C. There were many speakers on Y.F.C. matters from the history of the movement to detailed advice on how to reform and run th 6 club. It was very notice-

able that all senior speakers and those who have been associated with the Young Farmers’ Club movement tor some. years, expressed, their conviction of the value of the movement not only in general but to the speakers, themselves. The movement gave rural lads and young men the best opportunities available to continue their education after leaving school or the services and acquire the right kind of, knowledge from the best sources. Some people still thought that any “mug” could farm but in the opinion of these older

men ) present day farming called for most brilliant lads. The Y.F.C. movement helped to encourage them to stay on the land and taught them not only the art and science of farming but also the art and science of living.

The club having been resuscitated the meeting became the. annual meeting and election of officers for the ensuing year resulted in the following: Advisory President, G. R. Yeoman; Advisory Members, Neil Reid J. Rae Jnr.., and E. Hill; Club Chairman, G.’ Hill; Club Secretary, G. Gray; Club Treasurer, A. Ward law.

For the benefit of prospective members who were, unable to attend the last meeting, the next night meeting will he held at 8 p.m. in the supper room, of the hall on Monday, February *lB when a lantern lecture will be. given by the Fields Instructor, Department of Agriculture.