SINCE YESTERDAY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 847, 20 June 1910, Page 8

SINCE YESTERDAY.

PROGRESS OF THE MANAWATU. That there iii a big change since yesterday in New Zealand: is common knowledge, but reminiscences are generally interesting. ! At the Farmers' Union dinner at Paljnerston North on Friday -.night, Mr. D. Buiek, M.P., associated the progress of the Manawatu district with the growth of the Monawatu 'A. and P. Association. He went, on to say that t ho remembered the time -when they-had a great struggle to get that association started. The show grounds were almost totally covered with niatai stumps; in fact, the place was called Jlatai Flat. It cost them ,£9O for dynamite to blow the stumps out of the ground. They got about two hundred entries for the first show, and thought that they were "going great guns." The show had gono ahead since and had had a great deal to do with the prosperity of the district. The Palmerston winter show' was bettor than the Dnnediu winter show, which was the only other which- could be compared 'with Palmerston's, and the only spring show which approached it was that held at Christchurch. It was a great thing that the one district, Manawatu, could produce two great agricultural exhibitions as comprehensive and as vast as any two others in the whole Dominion.