FEILDING AS A CENTRE OF ACTIVITIES.

Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 837, 17 July 1926, Page 4

FEILDING AS A CENTRE OF ACTIVITIES.

. Careful and thoughtful readers of the Star must he struck by the eontents o! successive issues reporting local and district activities. Yesterday’s issue, ior instance, carried reports of the proceedings at the meetings ol three important local bodies: the Borough Council, the Man awn tu County Council and the Oroiia County; Council. Besides these records, there was the report of a meeting of the Wellington Provincial Council of the Farmers’ Union lu’M in [Molding. On Thursday the (.ivie Club, which entertains honouroil and distinguished guests, had a most original and instructive savant as its visitor, Mr Johannes Andersen, Librarian in charge of the Turnbull bequest in Wellin'gtriu and a. keen investigator of the Maori' ' and : his

pastimes and of the bird life of our laii'd. Last night there was the meeting of that very live and important body, the Feilding Agricultural

and Pastoral Association,- which serves to keep town and country in the closest touch. The Chamber of Commerce is also actively interested in the matters that concern trader, mer-, chant and farmer alike.. Feilding is certainly a very! active centre of life and its activities,. furnishing ample proof of the public* spirit of its men and women who serve in the community spirit. Yet there are men in Feilding' who decry the town, and dhh it slow and unprogressiye, with slackness in business. Those profitless .pessimists do not speak by the book. Feilding is actually as solid as most progressive towns, and is really doing a deal more and better business than some larger -centres we could name. Foilding’s business men have come through successive slumps wonderfully well, and they can now smile at those pastdays of adversity. Feilding is quite all right—its decriers and its pessimists are all wrong. They should come out of the mist into the sunshine of that Cone optimism that teaches all men .to read the rosary: Every day in every way we are meeting better and better times and more and more prosperity!