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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 October 1921, Page 2

I N.Z. FARMERS' UNION TARANAKT EXECUTIVE. lUuv usual monthly meeting of the Taranaki Executive of tlio Now Zealand Farmers' Union was Reid in Hawera yestorduy, when, there were present: Messrs Mills (chak1), Swindlehurst, Clearer, Allen, Orr, Pioreo, Beits, Hodge, Harrow, AsUniry, and Onon, Apologies for absence woro received frona Mr, i\. Dunn (president) mid Mr. Maxwell. CORRESPONDENCE. Tho Pharmacy Board of Now Zealand wrote Htating, in roply to tho exooufivo's niomo, that it was duly considered by the board. They mentioned that hardly any of the more potent poisons (those in tho first nehodulo) woro now sold by storekeepers, tboroforo no i loss could accrue to them. But tho provision for distanco was inserted to pro. vent any possible inconvenience to tho public in tho country. The general handling of potent poisons required knowledge of their nature and enacts, and it was obvious that this knowledge was very rarely acquired by storekeepers. Tho .second resolution, with regard to the antidote on labels, the board regarded an a good one, which might usefully be employed in the Bill. There was an exactly similar proposal at present under discussion in England. —Received. i The Minister for Public Health, reply- ; ing to the executive's inquiry as to what provisions were made for the support of blind persons in necessitous circumstances, mentioned that the support of all persons in necessitous circumstances was a matter for the Hospital Board of tho district in which the person resided. There was an institution in Auckland, tlio Jubilee Institute for tho Blipd, which did exceedingly good work in instructing tho blind in order to enable tkem to do something towards their own support. It was.not, however, a permanent homo for the blind.—Received. Mr. E. Dixon, M.P., wrote promising to support the union in connection with the Sale of Poisons and Main Roads Bills. Letters on the same matters were received from Messrs It. Masters and S. G. Smith, M.P.'s.—Received. Tho Minister of Labour wrote acknowledging the executive's letter urging that.stock owners should be represented in any Arbitration Court proceedings concerning the wages aud conditions of work for slaughtermen. He promised to look into the matter. —Received. PIHAMA BRANCH. A communication was received from Mr J. S- Tosland stating that at the conclusion of shareholders' meeting oi the local factory a branch of the Farmer:' Union was formed. It was decided to meet each Saturday evening nearest f.. i moon, and their initial meeting v.culd be held on Saturday, 15th.—The s cretary stated that he and Mr Dunn ud both attended the meeting, which ad been" quite a good one. BOYS' AND GIRLS' AGRICUL TURAL CLUBS. The question of branding calves entered for the calf-rearing competition was mentioned. -. The chairman said that before the meeting camo to any decision he desired to repeat what he had previously remarked, and he spoke with a feeling of responsibility for what he was saying, because he had had more to do with children than most of those present. It was his work for the best part of his life to teach children, and during his twenty years of that work his experience extended to thousands of children. His experience taught him thai they must trust the children. If they incorporated any conditions in these . competitions that would convey the im- ( pression that they suspected that the , boys or girls might try to best the com- ; mittee, that was the surest way of getr ting them to try to do so. There was it no better way of making childrer Cheats than by telling them that thej were not to be trusted". In these competitions, it was impossible that someone could be there to see what feed waj given to the calves day by day. The\ had to trust the children in that—anc it was an important part of the com. petition—so Jet them- be trusted in every other respect. This was not merely a matter of calf rearing; it wa< a part of the training of-the children and if' they made a mistake here the;? =, would make a serious mistake in con--1 nection with the very important work » they were undertaking. . 1 Mr Astbury did not think the chair- • ™an, had taken quite the right view of { *he branding suggestion. It was true tney must trust the children so far a E , feeding the calves was concerned but for the purposes of identification'the\ should be branded, otherwise it would . be impossible for the judges to recoenise an animal wben it came before them agam. 1 Mr. Buckeridge said it was a ques--7 l 1^ 1 .D"l^ able to brand the calves i before they were judged the first time fc Mr Astbury: They should be brandj ed, when first judged. 3 After some..further discussion itNvas resolved that the calves be branded the first time they were judged. Mr, Allen made the suggestion that in future, competitions the various supervisors and' officers of the Education or-Agricultural Department should KO around and brand the various calves entered for competition within a month or calving. "•^ouna health's an assot."—Bankes However, insipient maladies often undermine the most robust constitutions. 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