YOUNG FARMERS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16317, 18 April 1927, Page 10

YOUNG FARMERS

SHOW AT FEILDING. IMPORT AN T DEVELOPMENT. The Voung Farmers’ Club recently formed in connection with the Foilding Agricultural High School last week conducted a junior show—a miniature in every respect of the agricultural and pastoral shows of the Dominion. The fixture, although a novelty, was a complete success, and opens up another avenue for the promotion of agricultural education in the most attractive form, giving the scholars a rare opportunity. to increase their practical knowledge. Mr. A. Campbell, the first president' of Ihe Young Farmers’ Club, in an address at the opening of the show, complimented Mr. L. J. Wild, principal of the school, upon the interest which ho had taken in the junior show scheme, and alluded to the potential value of such exhibitions. The Young Farmers’ Ouh idea, allied with Boys’ and Girls’ Agricultural Clubs, would, ho thought, he taken up enthusiastically in other parts of New Zealand.

Mr. J. G. Eliott, M.P., who officially opened the show, extended congratulalions and gave an assurance of his support of the Young Farmers’ Club, which lie deemed such a potential force in the increased production movement advocated by banking and other institutions as the need of tho hour.

Cheers were given for Messrs. Campbell. Eliott, and Wild.

The exhibits were not confined to High bchool pupils. Town and country primary schools entered the lists as well and the indoor display in the school building was creditable to a decree especially insofar ns exhibits of phints and grasses were concerned. Stock ox hi bits were paraded on the school grounds, and, despite the smallness of eiUnes, qualify was by no means hick-