A. AND P. INTERESTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 349, 1 April 1911, Page 5

A. AND P. INTERESTS.

I PEELING AT OTOROHANGA. INTERESTING REFERENCES. The newly formed King Country ! Central A. and P. Association wag j referred to in complimentary terms at : Thursriav night's gathering at Otoro- ! lian».'.. ! Mr J. B. Teasdale, in proposing the | toast of the "Agricultural and PasI toral Interests," said that he came to ! Te Awamutu in 1576, and had since lived there and taken an active interest in public affairs. When he first came (he was born under the cows in Cheshire), and saw the beautiful country round the district he thought j it the finest dairying district he had i ever seen. He was one of the first to | advocate a cheese factory at Te Awa- ; mutu. The district was a prosperous j one, with farms changing hands at j very large prices. He was quite nure | the district round Otorohanga was j equal to a lot of their country. It j was very gratifying to him that sale- ! yards had been opened there, as he ! was what might be termed the father ! of the Te Awamutu saleyards. "Don't have sales too often." he concluded. "Get good sales, and people will come and buy. Don't be afraid of a little manure. It will double your income. I am quite sure you have a great population before you, and that Otorohanga will be as good and sound a town as any in the district. We are all working for the junction of the railway. Put it at the best place. It should go quickly to Kawhia and bring us in touch with splendid coal fields." Mr Jas. Boddie said they knew the chairman had an unbounded faith in Otorohnaga. It was going to be the centre of things, and he got his old friend, Mr Teasdale, to propose the toast from one end of the district and the speaker from the other, evidently with the intention of building his own district up.—That by the way.—The attention given to the district by outsiders showed that the leading men in the Dominion recognised that an immense future attached to that great district. It was quite right that representative men from outside districts should have the opportunity of meeting ar.d congratulating them. No doubt occasions would arise when the spirit of brotherhood would become of immense advantage to them, because their interests were in common. He thoroughly agreed that they should go slow in regard to their sales. Much work fell on few shoulders in these undertakings, and he hoped Mr Ormsby, in working for Otorohanga, was not going to steal the A. and P. Association from Te Kuiti. He felt he could ask them to assist. It was no i parochial work., and would be a source of benefit to the whole of the district, particularly when the railway comes to the back of Otorohanga, as it would feed Te Kuiti. He predicted that a few years would show that they could grow stock in that country, as good as, if not better than, in any other part of the Dominion. They had an excellent class of stock, though its days were doomed when dairying became predominant. However, that was not quite yet. He felt the A. and P. Association would be looked upon as their own. It was not aTe Kuiti one, and as the years went on he felt it would be a credit to the whole district. On behalf of Te Kuiti, he wished the Otorohanga saleyards the greatest possible success. Mr St. Hill, responding to the toast of "The Auctioneers," also referred to the corning A. and P. Show. He had only been with Messrs Da\gety and Co., Ltd., for the past three years, and had been appointed to Matamata, but that had been cancelled, and he had the consolation of being transferred to Te Kuiti, where they were having an A. and P. show next year. Southern men were coming up to this district, which showed that it must be good country, and judging by that day's sale they might be very proud of the commencement made.