WAIKATO AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL ASSOCIATION.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 751, 10 April 1877, Page 2

WAIKATO AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL ASSOCIATION.

We would take the last opportunif.y of reiuihdi'ng members of the above '•iiis i tJi\.litioiV, l that the annual meeting, for the election' of officers and the | appointment of a couitnittee for carrying out the business of tbe j'ear, will'" take place to-day after the cattle ■salevatf -Onaupo. It ia exceedingly 'ilesirablep that ' thd members should take an interest' iri the affairs of the -'association. " The; Waikato district 'afs'-a' t^hW'e 'is J at the present time very largely., atti-acting the attention Soutbern capitalists as a field for colonisation, possessing climate, and fertile land whiehc sells at a much lower rate f6r ! comparative value than lands in .CaWerbury and Otago. As we pointed but on a recent occasion, one of_;J:h,e;best; advertisements of the value of a district, from an agricultural point of view, is its local agricultui;al show. The reports are copied from the local journal into others circulating in country districts, and its capabilities arid advantages as a locality for settlement, are gaged by the: standard of production thus vouched for and the merits of the fex'hibitsi ' r To show our readers how tills is the case, we may mention that" even the date of holding the show 1 was^ instanced in a Southern 'fia-per* 'ikSfc year, to Waikato's disadvantage, 1 as' indicating that the district was later than others even further South ; for it was not unnaturally taken for granted that the exhibition was held just at the time uhen early summer produce was in ; fnlJL;Ci;op — whereas, other circumstances altogether, whiph we wish to see avoided this year, caused it to ,b ? e dri,V;en. off. later than it might jiaye , been. . A great deal will, of course.' depend upon the committee of management appointed to-day, 'Wiid f wlidev r er ; these gentlemen may be, - i fc- will,— *&»'-'ti*uet j- to « rgod upou them to take time by the forelock, and to draw , up and publish the programme of the exhibition before the last (possible moment, so that the producing arid competing portion of the public may have an apportunity of preparing. . To this want of information in proper and reasonable time last year was owing, to a great extent, the paucity of exhibits compared with what there would otherwise 'have been.