SHEEP FARMERS' UNION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 669, 20 November 1909, Page 8

SHEEP FARMERS' UNION.

A MOVE AT GISBORNE. " ; A''large 'meeting of sheepfarmers was held : during Gisborno show,,week, -when'a provisional committee, was appointed to ; organise a Poverty Bay-Sheepfarmers^Union .on lines of . similar organisations in Canterbury and Hawke's Bay. Since that date the names of about 200 sheepfarmers have been enrolled, as members, while the provisional committee I 'have taken steps, by circular ; and- otherwise, to obtain from all iti',4he;'district:'sufficient information, so as'UorboMtn. appositionto; get. at. the? real.'; factSf/regulating' 1 , the.;'coriditions? : ,pf labour'peculiar-to 'this -distrjet. ';.The. area .was to' comprise? the counties of '~Co6k;. Waikohu,. Waiapu, and., (subject, to .'the approval .'of the readonti''generally)'Opotiki. Nothing disunite hasY'bcen - decided ; as' tpVpermanent'. infcl'dsiion Of. Opotiki,: but\sh'eepfarme'rs in .that- districtare . being treated . .tentatively-'as; prospective members of,.the. union.-* A-general meeting; of members to elect a. permanent' committee, to appoint'officers;-and- to adopt'a definite organ\beerifixed for, Saturday, December -1. ' "■ '■/'■' - .-""v NORTH OTAGO A. AND P. SHOWil' (Ej Tclcsraoh..— I'rcss , Assoclatloa.i - ■ Oamaru, November .19.; !. The North Otago A. and 1'; Show, concluded to-day.'.'- There'.- was -a'good attendance, but rain,;which 'fell in-.the: early -morning,'.interfered ' with • the ; proceedings to- some extent. 'The total.'takings were: iE2O2,'. as, against last'; year, tat tho'association ■ has", an,- increase of nearly one' hundred, in its members, and',- as allthe other sources;.of income'.show :an improvement, the [financial j results are likely to bo slightly better. -.^ CODiIN MOTH IN APPLES AND. PEARS. r-i 0 certain .{'remedyis - Swift's - Arsenate .'.of Lead. ' Spray.; after; petals of. blossoms • fall, Continue', at intervals throughout the ' season'.