FARMERS' CLUB.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 173, 5 August 1901, Page 2

FARMERS' CLUB.

- ♦ \ ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. ? The annual meeting of the Farmers' 3 Club was held on Saturday afternoon, f Mr. J. B. Coanett, president, being in ' the cbair. The report and bahnre sheet were i, adopted as follows:—At tha annual - meeting on 21«t July, 1900, things did * not look very flourishing. SubscripJ tions ware coining in very slowly, and there was some doubt as to the exe pedioncy of continuing the club, but 51 r members signed a guarantee list, prom- ',■ ising to piy another 10s each if re- '• quired. The committee was now able to report that it did not intend to call a in any of this moaey. Th.9 present h membership was 92, of whom 78 had ° paid their subscriptions. Last year '■ Thomas's phosphate was purchased i, frotn Mr. Newton King; put this year the comraittes had sent an order Home for 50 tons, of which word was exn peeled soon. It was pointed out that 1 if members ordered a large quantity at * a time the cost would be much less. i The balance sheet would thaw 1 that the club's position bad greatly r improved during the year, and '■ if all members' subscriptions wer« pud !| up the club would be out o; debt s During the yew the club had been n brought under The Unclassified • Societies Registration Act, 1895, which ,_ gave it a legal standing. Rugret was f expressed that the committee had been - unable to get anyone to give a lecture, '• although' applicat'ou had been made to * the Agricultural Department and to j private individuals. The report con- . eluded with thanks to the department » for books and pamphlets, and to the • local P/eas for assistance rendered during the year. t Thn balance-sheet showed receipts to b h«ve b-en : Balance from last year, £1 19 s 8d; subscriptions, .£4O 15s; manure, £ll7 3s 9d; miscellaneous, ° £6 7s 3d. Expenditure: Rent, £24 . 6slod; manure, £ll7 3s 9J ; raiscel--3 Wous, £23 13s 5d ; balance, lis Bd. 1 Liabilities totalled £l4 10s 6d, against ° which were usee's ensistin? of furnil ture £l3 and cash ba'ance lis Bd, leav- ■. u>g a deßciency of 18s lOd. Thn Chairman s«d he hoped farmers Y would fro on and induce others to join. t I'hey got the aenefir, of a large selection f of agricultural and dairying literature, a and then again, if thi.y only lfcmaht a • ton of manure, they saved tha amount ' of their subscription. I Mr H. Okey snd he thought the - farmers wore hardly aware tlr.t they w*ra at liberty to come to t*>e rooms and conduct their business. The club > was also recognised by the Stock Def parfcment, which forwarded all reports i pertaining to its work. The election of office-bearers re- | suited:— President, Mr Hy. King; I vice-presidents, Messrs H. Okey and t Mai Ml; committee, Messrs T. French, -\F. Morric, T. Western and Turnbull ; J auditor, Mr W. Ambury. r Mr Okey said he bad been speaking to Mr Ritchie, Secretary of the Agricultural Department, about the mortality in young stock, One of his veterinarians thought the trouble was caused by a worm in the lung, partly owing to the wot weather, and that ho could cure the trouble. Mr OkeySgaid . he had suggested that be believed . farmers would be able to give a paddock for the veterinarian to experiment in, 1 so that they could see how the trouble \ might be overcome. M«* Ritchie was '[willing to assist. Mr Okey said he ,; knew of one settler who hud last £I,OOO i worth of stock. I The Chairman siid he believed Mr j Ritchie would do all in his power to assist farmers. The meeting then adjourned.