CENTRAL WAIKAT0 AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 528, 7 October 1875, Page 3

CENTRAL WAIKATO AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

JLmtjtTiJFGoftkeCeiitral Waikato Agricul4urtl<Ai« cUtioQ was held at Te Awamutu, <<ra Tuesday last. About 20 settlers were .present. The *ecretary stated that he had ♦called tins meeting at ihe request of Mr Hunciruan of Cambridge* and he would first read two letters he ;had received from him. £He then read the correspondence between • Messrs Kunciman and Mandeno which wa« published in thit, journal -aometime ago.] After the correspondence had been read, a settler present toqk exception Jo sojae of tlj^L teimsused hy Mr/aaEuric'imanin his letter."* He remarked ibat fie' was never aware^that the Te Awamutu district was "down," or .that the .settlers had aoy cause to become anore amenably to reason than . they had ever been. Another settler proposed. :"* Tlwt this do hold its Annual Show as usual." He thought it was good to let well alone, Te Awatnutu had shown itcelf eOt*petentfta.Bet «p a good »hv>w for the three years past and lie in* ture itaottld dy itagain r and t|w next, .a how would be better than-anj o£tte former.. The' Secretary* wished to draw, attention. to one word in the firstietter; viz>; " pmately.": He took it to me»n, not that the letter was «. private «ii* l«nßtJWr rtf fssed w«re ffirffii <i*f% l^uncimirtV iTfla % he was £ol '"cspreiiing tiie, feelings y>f "settlers amuntf .Uw. He thought .it Was a pi y for *hejwUce of a iew, words of an t , iadi : ridual, HJiichperhipa Were not iv very «604 taste, »o l»old w*t agai^s^ w|iat might prove^a , ■most uselul wovfiaent. : He-Jkn«w- jjhat .** many persons- both in Auckland And \u <be Waikotow«re strongly in fcivoanof A Central united show., and although fchis .Society Jiad already nwde maay overture* to i,wain~ that end, he #ovid like to tee it make one ujgare. Tbe 'tttgue«tion contained in the saecond letter, to call a pubKe ntee'titifir at Obaupo wis then considered, and it was generally thawg"ht r tUat such a meeting would •come to nothings itwculd e v d as its predecessors had encted, in a great lot of talk and^ nothing nore.^ The following reso utign was»" 4hen propo^d , aud carried unanimously: -" That this meeting do appoint delegates, to, meet delegates from tfae Cambridge side at. Ohaupo, -to try to arrange matter* for a gene-a-al show/ The delegates were thea cboten and the meeting broke up.