TIMARU A. AND P. ASSOCIATION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2722, 9 October 1894, Page 1

TIMARU A. AND P. ASSOCIATION.

A special meeting of the Timaru Agricultural and Pastoral Association was held at the secretary’s office on Saturday. There were about twenty-five members present, Mr A. 0. Pringle, president, in the chair. The amended rules and bylaws were adopted. A general meeting was then held, when the secretary was authorised to demand subscriptions for the current year from two members who had resigned. Mr H. Ford wrote, resigning as a member, and enclosing his subscription, as he was about to leave the district. Members spoke of Mr Ford’s valuable services to the association in past years, and he was unanimously elected a life member. The offer of special prizes from the Timaru Milling Company for scones made from Silver Dust flour was accepted. A letter from the Christchurch Chamber of Commerce requested the association to endorse a resolution of the Chamber requesting the Government to draw the attention of the British Government to the serious effects upon this colony as a producing and debt-owing country, of the present depression in prices, and to urge upon it the importance of arranging another international money conference to settle the future relations of gold and silver as money.—This letter was received, as the subject is “ too big ” for the committee to give it proper consideration. Besides a special train from Oamaru on show day, it was decided to try and arrange for a special excursion train from Christchurch or Ashburton. A request' from Christchurch for permission to erect a merry-go-round was deferred until counsel’s opinion as to the association’s liability was received. T’ le Timaru branch of the New Zealand Workers’ Union wrote a conference between of the Union and as many pastoralists of South Canterbury, with a view to arriving at a satisfactory shearing agreement, (deceived, the matter being outside the functions of the association.) The secretary to the Canterbury Association wrote that the Committee had passed a resolution asking the Minister of Agriculture to have the duty on binder twine removed. The Minister had replied that the matter would be referred to the Minister of Customs. One new member was proposed and elected. Accounts w ere passed to the amount of £2O 17s Id. Routine business was then dealt with. The secretary reported the financial results of the horse parade : receipts £0 16s, expenses £3; Cr balance £6 16s. The meeting then closed.