Ashurst Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 48, 20 October 1891, Page 2

Ashurst Notes

[from oub own cosbespondent/| " Mr John Stevens addressed* a meeting of the farmers of Ashurst, in Tait's Hotel on Friday evening, on the subject of cooperation. Mr Cotter took the chair, and said that co-operation or unioniami^was the order of the day, and that it was high " * time that farmers followed the lead and <■ tried to combine'to secure the fall beneSt •==. of .their labors. Mr^ John Stevens t«" l~ broker for the >Vest Coast Farmers' Gp& "| operative Association, showed his hearers^ '^ that the object of his Association was to ~ give the farmer the -fall benefit of the < prices that could be obtained for his pro- - J duce in.Jhe best markets of the world, - and alsoPto reduce the cost of selling.^ -^ Tnis equally applies to all those articles *■ a farmer has to bny, such as wool-bales, sacks, fencing wire, &c. The Association - would procure these for each member, withont the intervention of the middle- *. man,.- and so save his profits and let a farmer be supplied at cost price. The Hon. the Minister of Lands has f-"< been pleased to grant the request of the " Ashurst Trotting Club, and will allow a r , portion of the Government reserve to be „*- --used bo as to make the course larger. ■" There is to be a meeting of the ground" -^ committee on Monday. Will you inforroS~"- --" TJn"e"¥silding Jockey Club that we do not-' ~ intena^^drffiaihJibett^ay. A settler on the Spur roaa was rushed by a quiet cow and had a rib brsken. Dr * Macintyre happened to be in the 'vicinity rand was called in. " ""--— _^ Mr Eyans, the new teacher of the Spur Road School, has made a commence- . mentr Being v married man, with a"-- <: family, it is very inconvenient forJriaa^C that there is no -teacher's residence^j^jjj suppose thero will bo an application*^ for one. _____________