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Evening Star, Issue 19776, 28 January 1928, Page 19

At a social gathering in Mosgiel on Thursday evening, Mr J. W. Blair, in proposing the toast of “ Tlie Taieri Agricultural Society,” traced the progress of agriculture from early times to the present day. It was only during the last two centuries that the crudest methods had been abandoned, and since the seventeenth century mechanical devices and the special manuring of the soil had been employed. The formation of agricultural societies, which had their foundation in Great Britain, had been the means of great improvement in stork—cattle, sheep, and horses. The men who started the Taieri Agricultural Society almost seventy years ago had laid the foundation in such a way that the society was sure to prosper. Ups and downs had been experienced, but at present the society was in a nourishing state, thanks to the men—the sons of worthy farmers —who now carried out the duties of the office-bearers of the society, and to the ladies who supported their efforts. The Taieri was about the oldest society in New Zealand, and Taieri stock —improved through competition at the earlier shows and since—had now spread all over the dominion. Mrs Older: “As I tell my husband, it ought to be share and share alike. Marriage is a partnership.” Mrs Candyde: “Yes, and after all, you’re the senior partner, aren’t you, dear?”