The Daily News. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1900. THE AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL SHOW.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 234, 28 November 1900, Page 2

The Daily News. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1900. THE AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL SHOW.

In a district like this it should not need much to secure a very large attendance at the Agricultural and Pastoral Show to be held in New Plymouth to-merrow. Still, the importance of the event is so great that we cannot refrain from calling pointed attention thereto. There are those even here in Taranaki who fail to recognise that it is only, by the thoroughly earnest and united efforts of the people of both town and country that the fullest benefit is to be got out of such institutions. Farmers do not need to be told how great, from an educational standpoint, are the benefits to be derived by settlers from such exhibitions of stock, farm implements, and dairy produce. But, unfortunately, such gatherings cost money, and without some fixed sourco of revenue the only reliable way in which agricultural and kindred societies have of obtaining this is from the gate-money at shows. Everything that tends to increaßO the prosperity of the country settler is a great and immediate benefit to the towns. It is to the direct interest of townspeople to do all in their power to make these shows as successful as possible, by attending in such uumbers as to place the finances of the committee of management in a healthy and satisfactory condition. This, in a populous district like this, should be a very easy matter, and we hope to see the attendance at Thursday's Show a record one. At both Palmerston North and Hawera this year, the shows have been success-' ful beyond any previous occasion, and i we feel that the people of this northern | end of Taranaki only need to realise] that it is the individul interest in the shfflw that characterises the Palmerston and Hawera districts that is responsible for these successful shows there. For weeks before theshnv the whole people seem to have no other object in life than to make the show a greater success than ever. Every man and woman, aye, and even the children, seem to consider that it is upon their own individual effort that the success of the show depends. This is as it should be in a district that depends solely for its prosperity on the success of the farming community. It is, perhaps, too late for anyone here to do much in the way of helping the local show now more than has been already done. But it is_ possible for everyone to unite in determining that, in point of attendance, the New Plymouth Show shall be a record one for Taranaki.