CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 268, 1 May 1875, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

Our columns are open for free discussion ; but we do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions: of our Correspondents. :o: letters to the editor. Sir, —In answer to X’s letter in Tuesday’s Herald, the money collected for the Waikanae Bridge is in the hands of Mr. R. M. Skeet. The amount is somewhere about £ll or £l2. As Mr. Skeet is in town at present, X had better make a personal application to him for information on the subject. —I am, &c., YZ Gisborne, April 28, 1875. Sir.—“ The laws of health and sanitary reform “should be the first consideration in every “community, and, if neglected, nature will “ assert itself in most unpleasant and un- “ welcome ways.” — Standard, 23th April, 1875.

A case in point, illustrating the neglect of such warnings as the above, is to be seen and felt in the mass of rotten and decaying refuse of all descriptions, which is daily thrown out and allowed to accumulate, on the roadway between the Brewery and Captain Read’s yard, to the very great annoyance of all dwellers in the neighborhood and passers by.—Yours, &c., Olfactory.

Sir, —Throughout the length and breadth of Great Britain, Agricultural Societies, Farmers’ Clubs, and Chambers of Agriculture abound. In every county almost, there is a county society, besides some dozens of local ones, each holding an annual Agricultural Exhibition, or Show, of live stock, produce, &c. All these Societies, it must be admitted, exercise considerable influence on the social and political affairs of the district, and tend to promote a healthy competition amongst farmers, thereby causing more attention to be paid to breeding and rearing of stock, and to a more improved state of husbandry. Local societies meeting once or twice in the year for the. interchange of agricultural or pastoral opinions, are of infinitely greater service than a Metropolitan or Colonial Society. Before another twelve months have passed, I hope to see a “ Poverty Bay Pastoral and Agricultural Society,” not only formed, but to be able to report on the first show. To agricultural shows many a farmer has owed the turning point in his career ; has there seen some recent invention, the acquisition of which has drifted him from the verge of bankruptcy to the haven of prosperity. Poor soils, which a quarter of a century ago lay waste in some parts of England, are now (thanks to machinery and science) made to produce the fruits of the earth in abundance. With me, I doubt not, you will hail with great satisfaction the formation of such a Society as 1 have hinted at, and will give it all the support and publicity in your power.—l am, &c., Agricola.