FEILDING A. & P. ASSOCIATION

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8819, 22 May 1907, Page 3

FEILDING A. & P. ASSOCIATION

The annual report and balance sheet of the Feilding A. and P. Association has been issued to members. In their report the following reference is made to the shortage of stock trucks. Great inconvenience and serious financial loss has been caused all over the colony through want of sufficient trucks to carry fat stock when ready for the freezing works. In this district it has been felt very acutely. The committee, working with the executive of the Manawatu A. and P. Association, arranged a meeting at Palmerston North at which the Manawatu Railway Company and the Government were represented. Little satisfaction was obtained, but a small committee of the two associations was set up to work in the matter, and it is hoped another meeting will shortly be held in Wellington, when the necessity of providing more trucks will he brought prominently before the Minister of Railways, A resolution on this matter lias been passed by the committee and will go before the Agricultural Conference in Wellington. Finance was dealt with as follows : The balance sheet attached shows the present financial position of the Association, and may bo considered satisfactory. A considerable amount has boon spent iu provxding material for hurdles and also on permanent fixtures, which will lessen the necessary expenditure year’s show. The item of £440 for donations is very satisfactory, and shows how liberally the Association is being supported. The committee wish to thank, on your behalf, all those who have contributed to this fund. It may bo some satisfaction to our successors to know that many liberal offers of support for the coming year have already been received. Thanks are given to all those who have so willingly assisted with the work of the Association. It was stated that the labours of the secretary necessarily increase with the growth of the Association, ziiid the committee wish to record their appreciation in which your secretary has carried out his duties, ihe balance sheet showed the receipts last year to have been £1640 2s 7d, with a credit balance of £41(5 19s 7d, making a total of £2057 3s 2d. The chief sources of income were: Donations £43 :is fid, subscriptions £255 12s, entry foes £2O 7s (kl, gates_ £146 Os 3d and debenture on Feilding Building Society £361. The expenditure was £1786 Os Bd, thus leaving a credit balance of £2701 3s fid. The statement of assets and liabilities show the sum of £703 14s lOd, of the former more than the latter.