The Feilding Star. Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette. THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1911. The Wheeler Memorial.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1483, 4 May 1911, Page 2

The Feilding Star. Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette. THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1911.

The Wheeler Memorial.

There has just been issued to the members of the New Zealand Romney Marsh Sheep Breeders' Association, ■the Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association-, the Manawatu, the Feilding,

the Wanganui, the Hawke's Bay, and the Masterton Agricultural and Pastoral Associations, as well as to settlers in the Oroua, the Kairanga, the Pohangina, the Kiwitea, the Manawatu, and the Rangitikei counties, a circular following up the suggestion made at the Manawatu A. and P. Association's last Management Committee meeting that a permanent memorial to the late Mr G. C. Wheeler should be provided. A psecial committee, comprising Messrs D. P. Buchanan (Beaconsfield),' A. Conway (Kiwitea), and Ernest Short (Waituna West), undertook to promote a fund, and it is these three gentlemen Avho have issued -the circular. "It is felt," says the circular, "that some substantial memorial should he erected to the memory of the late George C. Wheeler, in recognition of the long and exceptional services he has rendered to the Associations and settlers whose interests he always had so deeply at heart. A memorial worthy of the man should be erected. It is hoped that you will contribute to so worthy an object. The committee will publish a full list of subscribers as soon as the fund is closed. Subscriptions may be forwarded to Mr E. Short, Feilding, or the secretary of the N.Z. Romney Marsh Sheep Breeders' Association, P.O. Box 40, Feilding." An excellent start has just been given £o the fund by Messrs E. Short and P, M. jfcHardy, who have contributed £50 eacfy, and Messrs Dalgety and Co, (Wellington) £21," and' Mr Short has been in Wellington this week advancing the interests of' the fund. We understand that the memorial aimed at is a permanent pavilion for Romney sheep in the grounds of the Manawatu.A. and P. Association, and success is already in sight.