PALMERSTON A. AND P. SOCIETY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10689, 16 July 1912, Page 5

PALMERSTON A. AND P. SOCIETY

ANNUAL MEETING.

(By Telegraph — Press Association.) {

PALMERfSTON N., Last Night

At the Manawatu' A. and P. VAssociation's annual meeting to-day, officers were elected as follows:—President, Mr T. R. iHodder; Vice-Presi-de.nts, Messrs D. Buick, M.P., J. A. INash, J. iG. -Harknese and ColoneJ Pringle; ffireaisureir, Mr J. M. Johnison; iConrmittee, Messrs Ernest Short, M. A. Conway, G. V. ifacSielor, Chas. Oar.r, K. L. Dalrymple, Hugh iGallies, D. Howie, J. A. McOrea, Raht. McNab, A. Sutherland, J. Flock, Jas. Tennant.

The annual report and balance sheet showed a considerably increased mem(bership, and a profit of £355 on the 1 ' year lending 31'st June last, while since then'the (National Dairy Show toad 'made a profit of £4OO, which i« #he largest for some years past. Tlv? work of the new .secretary (Mr W. T. Penny) was eulogised. D&eferenice avoe made to the special stock trains ipromiised by Mr Myers to [bring Auckland and (Waikato r-toek to the Palmerstonj Show, and vice versa, as calculated to have an important bearing on thestoows, and al-o to a proposal that ithe Government should give a pound for pound subsidy out 'of the totalisator tax on the amount subscribed. 'Mr David Buick, M.P., in 'returning thanks as Vice-Pres ; expressed toils belief tfhait Palmerston •would now get a Dairy Sbhoi.-l.

(Major Dunk, who has hewn chairman of the (National Dairy Sh >.v Committee igince its inception., was elected an honorary life member.

It iwas decided to accept Mr W. Wilkinson's tender of £B-39 for the election tfc the Whee)i: Memorial sheep pavilion, inr (memory of the late Mr G. C. Wtoeeler, a Romney breeder. The new <pavilion is to be in the full design; of 60ft x 250 ft, while the ipresenit contract is for 60ft x 175 ft, . •*