CENTENARY THIS YEAR

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 228, 25 September 1943, Page 6

CENTENARY THIS YEAR

A. AND P. ASSOCIATION

The Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association this year celebrates its centenary, being the first of the associations in Ivew Zealand to achieve this distinction. The 100 th annual report presented at annual meeting held yesterday stated that arrangements for the celebration of the centenary would coincide with the next show. In the meantime, owing to the continued occupation of the show grounds by the military authorities no arrangements for shows could be made The report expressed gratification at the profit of £1210 shown in the balance .sheet Mr. S. Irwin Crookes was re elected and Ell the ° ther °fflce?e were

Mv n rvnn^ tinS the president, £ Crookes, said that membership had kept up very well, considering that there of sho\vs. n ° retUrnS tO mem bers by way

?S Unge E men to c °me toiuaicl and take their share of the asso ciation's activities was made by a former president Mr. James Wylie. Mr °v F O'Donnell, secretary, congratulated "the association of thl that the associatlon a would fn the ftS&S sinT n the e b eS r Sh< ? W? ' aS W " U P° Snf , the suggestion of Mr J T v Mitchell, it was decided that a pamphlet be prepared, outlining the history of the association's first 100* years. Regardinl l£S r % fhows. suggestions would be we? corned from members, said Mr. Crookls