AN AGRICULTURAL BOARD.

Waikato Argus, Volume VII, Issue 487, 14 September 1899, Page 3

AN AGRICULTURAL BOARD.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—You are advertising 200,000 acres of land (the greater part excellent sugarbeet land) for sale or lease by the Assets Board. The Board have no doubt resolved upon the price at which to sell. Now I urge upon Waikato to consider my proposals to form the Couutieß of Piako, Waikato, Waipa and Raglan, together with the Boroughs of Hamilton and Cambridge, into a District of Waikato Agricultural Board, with similar powers as now obtains to the District of Wiakato |Hospital Board. Very few indeed need be the alterations or additions to constitute a Board with all the powers to take over all the Assets Board's lands and inaugurate the industry of beet sugar manufacture by the erection of a plant and a school of agriculture similar to a mining plant at the Thames School of Mines, or a big pump for the low leveU. The Hospital Board could be the Agricultural Board. A 300 ton per diem factory, perfect in every shape and form, with buildings, etc., attached to afford accommodation to students in agriculture. The 200,000 acres an endowment to the Board, subject to the repayment of the cost price to the Government, and the speciality of beet-Bugar the warrant for the district assuming control and lifting the dairy and agriculture to the position it deserves to occupy in New Zealand, for I assert that upon the establishment of beet sugar in New Zealand depends the foundations of agricultural and manufacturing progress and prosperity in New Zealand, and that, therefore, the district which holds within its locality tho specialities of this industry should be called upon to take the necessary steps to inaugurate it. Never will Waikato have such a chance again. Never, I say. Let all who have oyes in their head to foresee embrace this oppor» tunity. Ihe House is in fession ; a short Act could soon be passed through. It will lift Waikato head and shoulders abovo her difficulties in regard to establishing freezing works and bacon curing on an extensive scale. It will form that tide in tho affairs of Waikato which will lead her on to fortune, and all who own land in Waikato should join in tho movement. The industry cannot fail under such auspices, and the rosults will exceed the most sanguine expectations. Call a meeting, Mr Editor, and discußß it at any rate.—l am, etc., William A. Graham. Hamilton, September 7th, 1899.

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