TOKO SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 May 1918, Page 2

TOKO SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION.

To the Editor. Sttr,—was surprised when I was informed that the settlers of Robson Koad were not allowed to exhibit this year at the Toko Settlers' Association, owing to not supplying milk at the Stratford Dairy factory or any of their creameries. 1 wtss not aware that the Toko Settlers' Association was managed by the directors of the Stratford Dairy Company. The president or the Toko Settlors' Association has for a number of years field the honorary fcosltlon of director of the above company, and, no doubt, does not like offending his co-directors by allowing farmers who have ceased to be suppliers and joined a neighboring company to compete at any show along with Stratford Suppliers. It would be very interesting to know the boundaries defined by the association. One party, about eight miles from Toko, luformed me he haa a receipt for a year's subscription as a member, signed by the late secretary of the Toko Settlers' Association. We Robson Koad settlers are one mile from Toko. However, a poor excuse is better than none. The Toko farmers know quite vfell that they have no chance of keeping the coveted honors in their district, owing to the treatment their Robson Road neighbors had given their rcot crops, so they adhered to the narrow policy of barring them from exhibiting. Now, about twenty shareholders of the Stratford Dairy Company have ceased to supply at Stratford and joined neighboring factories since June, 1917. Some of the committee of the Toko Settlers' Association are associated with the Stratford A. and p. Show, and the so-colled Model Dairy Farm. We are expecting not to be allowed to exhibit at the Stratford show nor to look at the Model Dairy Farm, but, like Moses in regard to the promised land, may view it only from afar.—l am, etc, IGNORAMUS AGIIICOLAE. Stratford, May 28.