KAIAPOI FARMERS’ CLUB.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1966, 12 June 1880, Page 2

KAIAPOI FARMERS’ CLUB.

The regular monthly meeting of thia club wag held at its chamber, Kaiapoi, on Thursday evening, June 10th. Present— Messrs Pashby (chairman). Coup (hon. sec.), Parnham, Walls, Ross, Moore, Perrin, Dudley, Robb, Wilson, and Beharrell. Letters were read from the president, Canterbury Com Exchange, enclosing a letter and resolution of the Exchange referring to a proposed Act prohibiting the use of sugar in breweries, and enacting that public breweries should use only malt and bops. Mr Wilson moved—“ That Mr Bruce’s letter be acknowledged, and the club co-operate with the Exchange in requiring that malt beer, sold as such, should be brewed from barley malt.” Mr Beharrell seconded the motion, which was put and carried. It was decided that Mr Bateman be paid £5 for pamphlets on the subject of agriculture and free trade. The secretary read Mr J. A. Williams’s paper. Mr G. W. Wearing applied relative to an account in connection with the Kaikanui Hotel, which was referred to a sub-committee. A letter was received from one J. S. Brower, Little Sank, Minnesota, on cattle breeding, its uses and abuses, in which the writer went very closely into the subject, and related his experience in tbe management of various kinds of cattle, as well as commented on some of the principal bulls owned in Canterbury. On tbe motion of Mr Parnham, it waa resolved that Mr Williams be thanked, and as the club understood that he had some further information on the subject, they would be glad if he could attend personally at some future meeting. Mr Williams was elected a member of the club. On the motion of Mr Wilson, seconded by Mr Walls, it was decided that tbe annual ploughing match be held, and the managing committee of last year bo re-appointed. Messrs Stevenson, Walls, Young, Pashby, Ross, Parnham, Coup, Perrin, and Beharrell were appointed the working committee. It was resolved that the date be arranged to come in with the Papanui match, and that offers of paddocks be received at an adjourned meeting, to be held on the 24th inst. The club then adjourned.