WELLINGTON FARMERS UNION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 201, 19 May 1908, Page 3

WELLINGTON FARMERS UNION.

■ ; AN HOSPITABLE SUGGESTION. A correspondent suggests in the " Feilding Star" that: tho Mayor and Corporation of Feilding should hold a banquet in honour of,'the delegates' at the Wellington Provincial Conference of tho Farmers' Union, to be held at Feilding next week. He says:— "For.this coming dinner I would suggest that the Drill Hall bo taken; provision made for as many as the hall will seat, ; also tho stage to be utilised, tickets, to be riot more than 2s. (3d.. or 3s. Many. gatherings of this kind are held in our Dominion without including wines, .etc., in the menu, thereby lessening the cost and enabling many farmers and townspeople who do not care to pay the higher charge to be present. Ladies, v no doubt, would take part in tho ceremony if the charge was reasonable' and > there Tyas an. absence of intoxicating liquors and .it finished at a reasonable hour."

The Feilding branch of the i Farmers' Union, however, has already arranged' .to givo the delegates a dinner on ■ the second day, and the " Star" proposes that the above rules should then, apply. ' The ;Mayor, it suggests, should hold a public, reception, at'' which the ladies 'of the district should assist His Worship to do the thing'properly. Evidently there is distinction, and perhaps some embarrassment—but no beer—awaiting the stalwart, bashful farmors of the conference at Feilding.