WAITAHUNA FARMERS' CLUB.

Otago Witness, Issue 2738, 5 September 1906, Page 10

WAITAHUNA FARMERS' CLUB.

£Fsott Omt Ows Coß&fesroNDxirr.) WAITAHUNA, August 28.

The annual meeting of the Waitahuna Farmers' Club was held on Monday night. There was a large attendance of members, and Mr W. Cameron (president) occupied the chair. The annual report was read by the Secretary (Mr R. M'Ara), the work of the past year being reviewed and commented on. The Treasurer (Mr M'Caw) also submitted the balance sheet for the year, which showed the receipts (including the balance brought forward from the previous year) to have been £245 17s 4d, and the expenditure £222 4s lOd — leaving a credit balance of £23 12s 6d in hand.

The President, in moving the adoption of the report and balance sheet, referred to the work thai: .had been carried out by the club during the past year, and expressed its satisfaction at it 3 sound financial position. Mr Cameron was re-elected president, Mr R. M'Corkindale vice-president, and Mr R. M'Caw treasurer. A Committee of Management, consisting of 21 members, was also appointed.

It was deoided to hold the meetings of the club on the last Monday of the month, at 7.30 p.m., and the date fixed for the next agricultural show was Thursday, December 27.

Negotiations have been opened up again with the- Taieri and Peninsula Company in connection with the proposed creamery, and Messrs M'Caw and M'Ara have been appointed- a deputation to wait upon the directors in Dunedin to consider the subject. The prevailing opinion is that if once started the project is bound to be a success. A letter from Messrß Irvine and Stevenson, referring to the erection of a condensed milk factory, had also been received, and replied to by the sub-com-mittee set up to receive and deal with the correspondence.

Mr John Cowan, a very old member of the club, tendered his resignation. Regret wag expressed by several members at the resignation of Mr Cowan, and it was unanimously decided that he be appointed a life member of the club. Mr William Crozier, another of the staunch supporter* of the club, and who has been connected with it from its earliest days, was also appointed a life member. During the evening Inspector M'Leod, of the Stock Department, who attended for the purpose of .meeting the farmers, had a quiet and interesting talk about the rabbits, and while complimenting the farmers upon the manner in which they had carried out the instructions of tho department during the past year, he expressed tho hope that they would do still _better this year, as by a course of svsterhatic poisoning the rabbits, in portions of the Waitahuna district at least, would soon be a trouble of the past. He stated that pollard poison could be had from the department in hundredweight lots at 3d per lb, and from the chemists in smaller quantities at 4d, and he guaranteed it to be all that could be desired.

Mr M'Caw verified the statement by saying that he had obtained lewt of the pollard poison, and had laid a portion of it over a fairly large area, with highly satisfactory results.

The President thanked Inspector M'Leod for hi 3 attendance and for the information supplied by him. The members resolved to continue poisoning on every favourable opportunity.