TUATAPERE NOTES

Southland Times, Issue 20941, 26 November 1929, Page 11

TUATAPERE NOTES

HORTICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY. ANNUAL MEETING. (From Our Correspondent.) There were 22 members present at the annual meeting of th.e Waiau District Horticultural and Industrial Society when Mr J. C. Gardner was voted to the chair. The report and balance-sheet as read by the secretary and treasurer respectively were very satisfactory and showed the society to have a credit balance of £7 16/10. The show in 1929 had been much more successful than the initial one the previous year and there was every reason to look forward to even greater success in 1930. In moving the adoption of the balance-sheet Mr Gardner stated that although the credit balance was not a large one, the receipts for the year had been much higher than previously, amounting to £B6 8/9. There had, however, been a corresponding increase in the expenditure which amounted to £7B 11/11. There were 948 entries at the show of which 319 were in the schools section. The amount paid in prize money was £33 3/6 apart from donations and trophies. The chairman congratulated the committee and the people of the district on the success of the Show. The election of officers resulted as follows: Patron, Mr Adam Hamilton; president, Mr J. 0. Gardner; vice-presidents, Mrs T. J. Henderson and Mr R. Lawson; treasurer, Mr R. Henderson; secretary, Mr A. A. C.. Lion; committee, Mesdames F. Curow, H. Benneworth, J. McCulloch, A. Rilstone, W. Glendinning, T. Ward, T. Ballantyne, G. Gorton, R. Muldrew, J. Ferguson, W. Stoneman, Messrs-W. S. Horrell, G. Knowler, H. B. Acker, A. Rilstone, T., Ballantyne, H. Benneworth, R. Horrell, D. McKerchar, G. Gorton, H. Knowler, W. Glendinning, R. Scott,' J. Griffen, H. D. Norman, W. Norman, A. Miller, G. McLeod, J. D. Cameron, and C. J. Nicholas. It was decided to hold a two-day show next year and May 7 and 8 were the dates chosen.

The secretary was instructed to write a letter of thanks to Mr H. D. Norman for his offer to donate a cup valued at £1 1/for best heifer calf of dairying type nine months old, and to inform the donor that this class together with classes for fat sheep would be arranged at a meeting of farmers on December 6, when the subject of demonstrations would also be discussed.

The president’s offer of one guinea to be divided into three prizes for collection of vegetables grown in school plots in the Western District was accepted with thanks and a class arranged accordingly. Sub-committees were set up to revise the schedule and report to the meeting on December 10.