THE AUCKLAND FARMER'S CLUB .

New Zealander, Volume 10, Issue 866, 2 August 1854, Page 2

THE AUCKLAND FARMER'S CLU B .

We perceive that "the Resolution passed tit a Public Meeting held at Otahuhn on Monday, the 20th June, 18.")4. on the expediency of substituting the Parochial System of England in lieu of those parts of the Crown Land Ordinance No. 1, Session 10, and No. 10, Session 11, relating to the proclaimed Hundreds," is to form a subject of discussion at the Fanner's Monthly Meeting, at the Exchange Hotel, on Saturday next. This question was mooted at the previous meeting of the Ist ultimo, but was adjourned in consequence oftlie imperfect acquaintance of several members with the general scope and tendency of the measure p:o----posed, as well as because of "their ignorance of the line of argument employed at the Public Meeting, and which led to the adoption of the Resolutions passed, at Otahuhu. We hope that members have since been furnished with some inklings of the question to be discussed, and that it may he brought be-. fore a full and influential meeting. We rejoice to perceive questions of public importance to the agricultural interests being tit length brought forward by the yeomanry of the country. Such discussions are, in our opinion, calculated to be not only largely instrumental to the progress and prosperity of New Zealand, but are further calculated to elevate a Society, capable of imparting much mutual information, and accomplishing no incousid rable share of public good, from the uninrluential and unregarded position of a mere Farmer's Ordinary to that of a reasoning and intelligent Club, with minds and energies directed to promote the agricultural, pastoral, and commercial advancement of tl c land tiu-y have chosen for their home. It is in this spirit that we congratulate the Auckland Farmer's Club for having at length broken the ice by the proposed discussion at their meeting of Saturday. We trust it will be followed up by many other subjects of benefit to the farming interests. Let no man flag in such praiseworthy efforts to cherish the rural interests of his adopted land. Every man can impart some information. And, now, when we have not only an abundant market for our produce, but the immediate certainty of a means to convey that produce with promptitude, and in good condition, to market, wo should be sadly wanting in duty to each other were our Farmer's Club to overlook the moral power of such Associations as theirs, which, by an interchange of ideas. —by a diffusion of knowledge, —and by communicating the results of practical experience,—have exalted the yeomanry of Great Britain to so proud a position in the social and intellectual scale.