A QUERY.

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7957, 14 April 1904, Page 3

A QUERY.

CTo the Editor.) Sic, —As matters scenic and horticultural are occupying the attention of our townspeople just now, may I be allowed to ask, through the medium pf your columns, what has become of the Fruitgrowers' and Horticultural Society ? For at least eighteen months it has given no sign of its existence, and appears to have died from mere weariness of living. If it is,, really dead, would not the present be a good time to organise a new," and, I hope, a more vigorous and up-to-date association of a similar character? If such a society were started at once and were energetically conducted, it might hold as its first public display a large spring flower show, say in September' (the time of daffodils), and all surplus, profit! from this initial venture might be handed over to the new Beautincation Society to further the meritorious objects which the latter has undertaken to carry out. I know that surplus profits from flower shows are not always }a.vge, but I am aure that vigorous management and a deserving object on which to spend the money obtained would go a long way towards a thoroughly satisfactory result.—l am, etc.,

C. E. M. Mellsop, April 13th, 1904.