AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL ASSOCIATION.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2237, 3 June 1881, Page 3

AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL ASSOCIATION.

The ordinary monthly meoting of the committee of the above was held at 2 p.m. to* day. Present —Messrs J. R. Hill (chairman), P. Duncan, Henderson, P. Cunningham, Boag, Sutherland, J. Anderson, Jun., Ferguson, Moßeath, Brace, Norman, Money, and MoTJraith. A letter was read from the Government, stating that the association had not complied with the Act by forwarding a statement of the affairs of the association.

The Chairman pointed out that the year of the association did not end till December, instead of Marob, so that really the information asked for was not due. However, there could be but one aim in view of the members of tho association, viz., to give as great Eublicity to their proceedings as possible, and e thought they should reply that they were quite willing, if the Government required it, to send the information required by them, to as to lay it before the House. It was resolved that the secretary be insteucted to reply pointing out that the year of the association did not end till December, but that it was quite willing to give any information that might be required. The Chairman called attention to the fact that more medals and books were required before the next show. It was resolved medals be struck, and that the question of obtaining more books bo relegated to a committee comprising the president, vice-presi-dent, seoretary, and Messrs Mcllraith and Murray Aynsley." The notices of motion standing in Mr Money's name as to tho alteration of certain regulations under the class of light horses, were postponed by him, on the understanding that his suggestions would be considered by the committee appointed to revise the catalogue for the ensuing Metropolitan Show. It was resolved that the first meeting of the sub-committee for revising tho catalogue ihould be held on June 7th, after the general meeting of the association. Mr Mollraith brought before the notioe of tho committee the faot that a gorse-cutting machine was groatly wanted by the country. He trusted that some other means would be taken to spur up competition in the matter. They had had trials but they were very unsatisfactory. . . . Mr John Anderson, junr., said that the trial for Mr Tripp's prize failed because of the condition imposed by tho donor, which made it imperative on the competitors to have a one horse machine. Mr Murphy pointed out that the Hornsby machine was highly spoken of at home. _ The President said that nothing the Society could do in giving a prize, however large, would induce the manufacture of ft gone cutter. There were thousands of miles of gorse hedges, and therefore any man inventing the maohine would make a fortune at once by it. He thought that this was the atite of Ih'ngr,that in no other country in the world was there so muoh gorse as in Canterbury, hence the field of inventors was limited to New Z aland. Mr Mollraith thought with the president, that any notion of theirs would not have the effect of making inventors come forward any quioker than the vast field offered by the thousands of aores to cut. The subject then dropped, and the meeting adjourned.