HAWKE'S BAY A. & P. ASSOCIATION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 930, 24 September 1910, Page 20

HAWKE'S BAY A. & P. ASSOCIATION.

.'One of the'institutdons :of %KcK;the province has,; reason '%. lie; its prosperous and' well-managed-Agricultural and Pastoral. Society.'' .This society is how in its forty-eighth long-record for a- Zealand..AgricuJturar; S ocie of the . of : the pettiest','. showgrOunis' "iiL the^ 'Doimnii»ft7« , 'groipfl which it'-shfires'^witK the Hawke's'Bay Jockey Club,; .and' on which some of the : principal events : Of the >HawkeV Bay;,, turf are run. This ground' is'.in close proximity, to-the rising ',bbrou'gh,of Has tings,/aid:being ,haiKljr:to, Toad' and' rail, it" can- be veniently from every , part oi' tho island, and • it. forms a very valuable.- asset-,;for: the society. The society's show history would" be . altogether too- long to tell in detail,.-but. ;it'may •.be'said been in many' respects a.history' of the agricultural: and pastoral progress of ..this, rich and fertile province, and : the names Svnichare to' -be found in. its long.: list ■of - exhibitora or enrolled amongst its officebearers are. names which are. inseparably connected with .the development >6i , Hawlco's; Bay. .' Amongst. the earlier: exhibitors ..who, are still .happily in the. land , of' the; living, are . the Hon. J. D. : Ormimd; and Messrs. -T. Tanner and J. H. • Coleman, a trio of gentlemen who have done a good deal to [bring the society., to its present flourishing state. Then, too, • amongst thosio;'who--yreta', prominent'iek-i , hibitofs in- . tho'-early; days, but who''Haw now passed away or dropped out of tho 'running., as.t - exhibitors,.are,7 the,,.late Messrs. .'J.-' Davis Canning,'- of'Oakbourne," Wallingford, and John Heslop, of Omaj ranui (draught horses); the lato T. Purvis Russell, of Woburn, Waipukurau (now, thethriving settlement lof Hatuma);the : late H. It. Eusscll, : of. Mount Her-, bort, Waipukurau (Lincoln sheep); tho late Allan M'Lean, of Duart, Havelook North; the lato -W. Douglas, of To Mahanga; and the late. James, Watt and Robert' Farmer, of T.onglnnds,' Hastings (thoroughbred horses) i the. lato: John ' Anderson, of Kereru.' pnd .the manager Milbourne. Station, .Kaikora (now, ;tho J\rgyll Settlement), and Mr. W. Jl 1 -'Birch; - of Erehwon, but now living at Marton (Merino sheep); the late Archdeacon' S;. Williams, of To Aute, and Alexander ;M'Hardy, - of Blackhead '(Shorthorn cattle); and Mr. ■J. N. Williams; of Friinley, Hastings, onco a big breeder of ■ Lincoln : sheep, but who now, owing-to the.cutting' • up;;'of- the property, - is',.;.6nly. represented bys,the': Frimley products,jthough',;tlibso are no mean item, and probably this gentleman has done at least as much as any other "in the long and honoured roll" to forward the progress. of tho district. The names mentioned are but a titho of those which might bo quoted as serving .as lints in tho constant chain of ex-