The Standard AND PEOPLE'S ADVOCATE. (PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY.) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1876.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 410, 16 September 1876, Page 2

The Standard AND PEOPLE'S ADVOCATE. (PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY.)

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1876.

“ \V»shall sell to no man justice or right: We shall deny to no man justice or right: We shall defer to no man justice or right.”

The meeting held on Thursday evening at the Waerenga-a-hika Hotel, was productive of results that will, undoubtedly, tend to cement more closely than hitherto, the agricultural and the pastoral interests of the district. Mr Walsh, as the prime mover in the new formation, disavowed any hostile intention towards the existing Society. His idea was simply to impart a stimulus to its working, by an united effort on the part of the settlers engaged more exclusively in agricultural pursuits. He thought the means to accomplish this end would be to form a Farmers’ Association, not necessarily in opposition to, or clashing with the Agricultural and Pastoral Society, but merely for the more effectual furtherance of the interests that directly affected them as a class. Mr Walsh’s assurance to this effect put the meeting in good humour at once, as it furnished the

means of withdrawing the “ sting, which was thought to lie covert in his original proposal. Nevertheless — although the farmers have a perfect right to associate themselves in any way they please —there was a suspicion abroad that if such an association were formed, it must, of necessity, clash with the existing Society, and the meeting determined, on Mr Johnson s amendment, not to entertain Mr Walsh’s proposition. The attendance of the President, Vice-President, and other prominent members of the Agricultural and Pastoral Society, (as we suggested their presence would do) gave satisfactory proof that the movement watPonc in which they were greatly interested, while it afforded them an opportunity of assuring the agriculturists that their interests should be well looked after in the future. Jndged by the results, the meeting has done a great and a lasting good. It has dispelled, in a most satisfactory manner, the idea of one sided action ; and will be the means of cementing the Society more firmly together. It now remains for the agriculturists to do their part of the work which directly devolves upon them. Every man amongst them should be active members of the Agricultural and Pastoral Society ; and so, by acting in unison, promote all interests alike, in the welfare of which, they, the public, and ourselves are deeply concerned.