AN A. AND P. ASSOCIATION.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 333, 1 February 1911, Page 4

AN A. AND P. ASSOCIATION.

A movement is on foot for forming an Agricultural and Pastoral Association for Te Kuiti and the lower King ■ Country generally. We are most heartily in sympathy with the movement, and wish it every success. The need for such an association has been forming itself in the minds of a number of our prominent people, and it is believed that by taking time by the forelock and getting aii the preliminary arrangements made, a show might be held in February or March next year. Of the value of such a show to the district generally no farmer or settler can be long in dcubt. It stimulates a spirit of enterprise amongst stock and sheep breeders. It cultivates a finer type of cattle, whether for dairy or store purposes. It brings together on one day all the farmers in the district, and the interchange of ideas, like the rubbing together of steel and flint, produces a spark and illumination.. Ana with Te Kuiti on the Main Trunk line the show would attract the attention of other entries from Hamilton and Cambridge, on the one side, to Palnierston on the other. The King

Country has the reputation amongst those who know it intimately, of breeding some of the finest cattle produced in the Dominion. Its limestone country and rich grass lands are peeuliarly suitable to Ihe growth ul draught horse?, and the purchases made by local residents of prize blood

stock from other districts, show that no effort is being spared to keep the quality of the stock at a high level. The question of the site upon which the show will be held may well be left in the hands of the members of the Association. The race grounds very strongly lend themselves to such purposes, and we know of nothing offering a finer site, provided the two different bodies can come to terms. But this is by the way. The important thing is that at last the movement is started, and though behind our friends in the Ohura, we yet need have no fear of clashing in any way with them. The field is a great one and there is ample room for both societies working harmoniously together for the good and welfare of the lower King Countr *.