CORRESPONDENCE.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 33, 30 August 1884, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

• We are not- responsiblifor the opinion* of (our correspondent*. A ■* Farmer's Clubs TO THE KDITOB O- THE STAB Sib,— While thanking you for the . notice you have taken ofcinj % the 19th, I think that .you have "somewhat mistaken my idea. What Iliad in'my mind in writing was chiefly the organisation of a club which would be the^meajoSy, ._, WM of bringing farmers together for the iii- ~ t A terchange of ideas. ThashojJr.was bu^ra j -„. secondary consideration. We see" all over the country organizations-of-diffefc yy^ ent kinds, such as chambers of commerce, industrial associations, _c, all of which ;._ have for their obiecti the;! futtfreiftgeg; of f- j; the interests of {hose by whom they are * \f started, ls there then no neeeisuty for a similar course among farmers P It is generally ' allowed jfchai , inhaJbrtaqt^ jb£ * uptowns are brighter and more alive to their interests than the dwellers i% Jhe ?9 untr 7» and ! that this arises from, the constant contact of mind with m hmL* and I tliink that an association suck as Lsu&eited would assist to promote this contact v Such^ , _ . r _, a club as you advocate would be t^oo*icat- , *'* ,:ii tered to have this effert, r tb*refb>e I prefer to stick to my origins! idea that a lc»al;'[ n fr farmer's club shohld.be instituted for the purposes mentioned in my first letter, with the exception perhaps" of the^sbpws. That might perhaps be a larger 1 aff%ir. (; - What I should like*to see; would be farmer's clubs in all the centres 3of the country between the Mana*»ati} and Wangaehu Rivers, and- if such were instituted it would be easy W have** in annual show held, either in the most central part of the district, or, as you My, in a different part each year. This-sfcow might be arranged by delegates from the fanner's clubs, or might be the care of a separate body. I think, sin you will see . that an association such as you sbggtfct " "' '-*' would have very little real influence over. , " - • ' . . • i y, y± ,y'A.~ •'■ the body of the farmers, as few would " attend the meetings, save those in the immediate neighborhood, and from. the ... number of district centres these meetings" could hardly take place of tener than p.ace a year in each place., This therefore seems to me at once condemnatory jof your scheme, but by adopting. m^.J»lan the meetings might be held suffidiently often to have an influence ou the bulk of the members, while by making theshow the business of an amalgamation ot'chibs, or of an entirely separate body, the amount of subscription to the club-need be small. Trusting that these Suggestions wiR-jneefc; - the approval of the farmers of , the district, and apologising, for taking up so much space.— l am, Ac, „y, ..< f^ . .._.• >_ B. C. Tbmplab.