Stratford A. and P. Association

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 291, 21 November 1936, Page 1 (Supplement)

Stratford A. and P. Association

27 Years of Advancement Annual Show Indicates Striking Progress of Central Taranaki STRATFORD’S twenty-seventh Agricultural and Pastoral Show on Wednesday and Ihursday next can safely be predicted to eclipse all previous ones in point of specularity and quality of exhibits. The programme is a particularly large one and spectators will in turn be thrilled, educated and amused. Fhe town, no less than the country, is interested in the annual A. and P. Show. When the farmers of Central Taranaki are prosperous, the Stratford townspeople are prosperous. When, too, the farmers meet difficulties, the economic result is depressing to the business houses in turn. \ As is reviewed elsewhere in this issue, the Stratford A. and P. Association has twenty-seven fine years of record , behind it. It has built bravely from small beginnings and on Wednesday and Thursday next pioneer members will look back with pride to the work they have carried on so thoroughly throughout these years. The alliance between industry and the farm will be clearly emphasised at the Show next week. Primary production depends more and more upon developments in science and technology, and the range of exhibits will indicate how other industries have been enlisted m the cause of better farming. The mechanisation of filming has developed rapidly and to a high degree of efficiency—how high, will be seen by the various mechanical exhibits. !