THE WAIKATO FARMERS' CLUB.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2646, 27 June 1889, Page 2

THE WAIKATO FARMERS' CLUB.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Now that the Waikato Farmors' Club has become an established fact, it is to be hoped that every farmer in tho Waikato, setting aside all feelings of petty or local jealousies will heartily throw in his adhesion to tho movement by at once joining the association and paying the annual subscription, which has wisely been fixed at the very low sum of five shillings, and as often as ever possible attending the monthly meetings of the club. Never so much as now has there existed such a need for a movement on the part of our farmers for the purpose of promoting and advancing the pastoral and agrictural resources of our district and the securing to ourselves such advantages as can only be obtained by united action. We have too long overlooked the fact that whilst commercial and business men of all classes have their clubs and as sociations for the promotion of their particular interests, we as a class, have been singularly behind hand in this respect. Profiting by the experience of the past associations of a similar kind in tho Waikato, which from one cause or another have after a longer or shorter existance become things of the past, there is, I am sure a very in.portant antl useful career I efi re the Waikato Farmers' Club. I do hope, that the society now formed will very soon see ils way clear to act upon your Miggestion "to give a leading place on it< programme to the establishment of Agricultural and Pastoral Shows" in the Waikato, and also to the piomotion in every way possible of what I believe will in a very few years liecome one of, if not, the leading industry i f this district viz., the dairy industry, Toe club, is 1 think, to be congratulated upon seeming the services of so good a m in as Mr Tuck as its Secretary, but 1 also agree with you that to associate with liirn an energetic arid practical farmer would be of immense service to the society.—l am, etc. Hknrv Bi;ti'lu. Aunandale, Piako, JuueL'Otii, ISS'J.