ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
DISTRICT DIVISION SCHEME URGED
fPiE United Peeks Association.]
WELLINGTON, June 19
The annual meeting of _ the Royal Agricultural Society of New Zealand ■was held to-day. Support for the proposed scheme of reorganisation, involving the division of New Zealand into five districts for the purpose of holding the Royal Show in each once every five years, was .urged by the retiring president (Mr L. R. Macfarlane), who emphasised measures which would strengthen the society and place it on a sounder national footing. The newly-elected president (Mr L. J. Wild, of Feilding) moved that the principle of reorganisation he reaffirmed. The society seemed to have drifted backwards considerably, and the scheme under discussion would give it' new life. It invoked a certain amount of decentralisation in the direction of developing keen district interest, and at the same time it would Jii'ing about the national outlook that desirable..
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Evening Star, Issue 21750, 19 June 1934, Page 12
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148ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY Evening Star, Issue 21750, 19 June 1934, Page 12
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