AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL ASSOCIATION.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2014, 7 August 1880, Page 4

AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL ASSOCIATION.

The monthly meeting of the committee of the above association was held at the offices, Hereford street, yesterday afternoon. There were present Mr J. B. Hill, vice-president (in the chair), and Messrs John Anderson, jun., Thomas Bruce, John Deans, John Ferguson, J. T. Ford, Samuel Garforth, John Gilmour, William Henderson, John Mann, John McBeath, Hugh Mcllraith, H. P. Murray Aynsley, E. Sutherland, James Walls, and Mr Murphy, secretary. The Ohairman drow attention to the excessive assessment of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association 'a Show Ground, namely, at the rate of £420 a yoar. Mr Murphy, the secretary, protested against it at the time, but unfortunately he was not then armed with opinions from people in the town as to the value of the ground. He thought, therefore, that it was his duty to bring the matter forward in order that (though nothing could be done this year) the subject might be ventilated in view of the next sitting of the Assessment Court.

Mr Sutherland concurred in the remarks of the chairman, and remarked that, considering the grounds to have been valued as a building lease, the sections into which it might be divided, allowing for roads, would not be valued at anything like £l5O each. The matter was here allowed to drop. The reports of sub-committees appointed to nominate judges in the various classes for the forthcoming show, were then considered, the recommendations made being in the majority of instances adopted by the meeting. With regard to the leaping match, a resolution was passed to the effect that post entries for the said match be taken up to one o'clock on the second day of the show, and that notioo of the same be advertised.

The question of erecting a shed for the exhibition of colonial manufactures was next introduced.

Mr Anderson had kindly prepared two plans of suitable buildings, with an estimate of the cost.

The committee resolved, on the motion of Mr Moßeath, that the sub-committee be authorised to expend £3OO in the erection of a permanent shed for the purpose indicated, and to call for tenders for the same.

It was also resolved that the plan of the shed showing the Bide lights he adopted, and at the suggestion of Mr Sutherland the committee decided that the building be of wood, with an iron roof.

Accounts to the amount of £lls lis lOd were passed for payment, and the committee then adjourned.