FARMERS' TRANSPORT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23061, 11 June 1938, Page 22

FARMERS' TRANSPORT

HORSES AND MACHINERY, NO FEAR OF COMPETITION [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] DTJNEDIN, Friday " As long as we continue to breed sound high quality horses we have nothing to fear from the mechanised form of transport," said Mr. 11. Kennedy, of Drummond, retiring president of the Clydesdale Horse Society of the Dominion of New Zealand, when speaking at the annual meeting. "This form of transport will always prove too costly for the' average farmer in Ndw Zealand or in fact in any country,"he added. * • / . a,, Mr. Kennedy said the lesson in that respect was to bo obtained from the United States and Canada in which countries horse breeding was on the increase. The business of the society was fundamentally the breeding and improvement or the Clydesdale horse for show, sale and farm purposes. In the. last few years . the demand for good show mares, fillies and stallions had been good and there had also been a good inquiry for farm horses. A motion was carried urging the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. W. Leo Martin, to give urgency to the question of having the Stallion Bill placed on the Statute Book. Members referred to the Minister's promise that this would be done last session and emphasised that it was important that it should be given attention this session; The following officers were elected:— President, Mr. J. W. Harding .(\Vai~ pukurau); vice-presidents, Messrs. A. Brown (Kakanui), A. Grant (Fairlie), AV. C. Wallace (Cambridge) and Q. Donald (Featherston); treasurer, Mr. A. Hunter (Hawera); auditors, Messrs. Walkley and Lawrence (Hawera); members of council, Messrs. D.* Caldwell (Edendale), S. Fleming (Crookston), A. E. Harding (Mangawhare), J. Logan (Otania), A. Mcßobbie (Papakura), J. Young (Allanton), Q. Donald and A. Hunter.