MASTERTON FARMERS' CLUB.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2034, 6 July 1885, Page 2

MASTERTON FARMERS' CLUB.

The adjourned monthly meeting of the Farmers' Club was held in the Club

Room, Temple Chambers, on Saturday. The President being engaged at the Road Board,' Mr D, Guild was elected Chairman pro tem. The minutes of tho previous' meeting were read and confirmed. . Correspondence were read from the Secretary' of the Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Association, acknowledging the receipt of a letter from the Secretary of the- Masterton Farmers Club containing the following resolution " That the Committtee

appointed by the Masterton Farmers Club to canvass the Wairarapa district for the purpose of forming an Agricultural and Pastoral Association desire to know

whether the Committee of the Wairarapa

and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Association are prepared to co-operate, with a view to holding an annual show in

[astertou for the' whole of the Wai-

rarapa." and stating that a committee of ihree had been appointed to reply thereto. From W. Booth, one of three appointed

to reply, wrote as follows" Dear Sir, 1 was asked by the Committee of the Wairarapa and East' Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Society to'join witA Messrs Boys and

Dorset in sending a reply to your letter of the Ist inst. 1 find it, however difficult in the midst of another engagements to arrange a meeting with them, that I think it better I should myself reply to you. To wait longer would have an appearance of discourtesy, and might be inconvenient to you, The Committee of our Society are,

without exception, of opinion that you

,'oposal cannot bo entertained. It seems

to have been overlooked that the present meeting place and the serious engagO'

Lents which have been undertaken b

our Committee wero arranged with the approval of gentlemen representing evory part of the Valley, and that no reasons are given why arrangements which have been fairly successful, which have involved

a large amount of toil and anxiety for a number of years, and which are in every way adequate to meet all the requirements of the *Wairarapa for many years to come,

should be at once abandoned, Wo fully recognise that an important, auxiliary work may bo done by a Farmers' Club, and wo cordially wish your Club the most complete success. there can hardly bo two opinions .is to the fact that one Agricultural and Pastoral Society is as ; much as can be maintained with advan-

tage to the community at present, and for some years to come, and there are surely many very strong reasons, that being the case, why the present Society should continue to receive the cordial and united support of tho whole district.—l am &c., Wm. Booth, From Mr R. R. Meredith, regretting his inability to attend the Farmers' Club meeting, as it fell upon the same day as •the Castlepoint Road Board monthly meeting, of which he was a member. .From the Secretary'of the Ashburton Farmers' Club, sending, as requested, information as to the proportion of poison to grain used in the destruction of small birds.

Sundry accounts were fop pit] lHQllt. Thq Secretary reported that he ha furnished the Club room, at a coat no exceeding £lO, as instructed at the las meeting, and that the room was opena daily for tho use of members, and wa supplied with stationery, periodicals, am papers on subjects of interest to farmers Messrs W, H. Smith, T. Parsons, am 0, Elkins wore ballotted for and dul; elected iiiembera of the Clvib. . On behalf' uf the Committee appointei to canvass for subscriptions for the forma tjou of a Masterton Agricultural am Pastoral Society to hold shows annually reported that the list had in conjunctioi with Mr It, Welch, amounted to £l© including six guineas collected by M Guild. There were six other lists f> come in that would make the total amoun promised in furtherance of the objec between £250 and £3OO, The wholi report would be . completed and lai< before the annual meeting of the Clul next month, together with tho report o the amount of support that would bi given by exhibitors. Plans of tho cattlo yards in course o erection by Messrs Lowes and lorn wero kid upon tho table, and it wa: shown t]iat a siim of #2O wqijld auppl; fiicm with jiqrdlos sufliofent (o jiibdividi tlio pens 'shown oh the plan for 'tho pur poses of tho Sheep and Cattle Show. Tin jite of Messrs Lowes and Toms new yard was'stated to be convenient to the Town md near tho Railway Line in Renall itreet. Mr Carman reported that Mr F, H Wood had offered his cattle salo yards fre :o the Club. It was resolved to appoint a committei consisting of Messrs -T. Chamberlain, I? Welch, and J. Hcssoy to wait upoi Loiycfi ancj turns and F, H, Wood mcj ascertain the terms upoij \yhjph thl iijc qf the yards could' be pbtaineu, ant :eporttothe annual genefiil meeting ti je held next month. It w<v!} resolved that the rflom adjoin ng tljo Club meeting room he rented fa h'e use of the Segretary, <md for com nittee meetings, , Messrs S, Hawkins, B. Himt, T, L, Thompson,- and T, P, Girdwood wero iroposed as members, and the meeting djoumed,