TARANAKI AGRICULTURAL SHOW.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9255, 3 December 1891, Page 2

TARANAKI AGRICULTURAL SHOW.

TO THE EDITOR. Siu, —The annual Agricultural Show is to com 9 off on December 10th, and as you have the welfare of the district at heart, may I ask you to afford me space for an appeal to the Taranaki people in general to do everything in their power to make this year's exhibition a success. Anyone who visited the late Hawera Show could not otherwise than have been impressed by the splendid attendance on the ground. Tho whole district appeared to have turned out for tho occasion, and the Hawera people have every reason to be proud of the ex. r'tt de corps there oxisting. Onr farmers have the reputation of having , been too apathetic in the past; let them now shake off the lethargy which years of bad times have helped to induce, and let every man who has an animal of any pretentions to excellence) enter tho same oa Saturday next, and so do a little towards helping to make the Show far better than it has been before. This district has made wonderful strides of late, and cv 'ryone is glad to feel the decidedly improved condition of affairs in goneral. As tho lOfch will fall on a Thursday half-holiday, every man and woman who can possibly do bo should spend a shilling and help by his ether presence to do a little for the good of the district. Even to the ordinary being who takes little or no delight in animal beauty, there will bo plenty of attraction in the hack und jumping competitions, to say nothing of the Maori items on the programme, instituted by a progressive committee who, with praiseworthy enterprise, are offering better prizes than on previous occasions. We have every reason to expect a large attendance of visitors fnm down the line, and the ground will now bo worthy of the exhibition to bo hold on it. 1 hope the Band will manage to bo present, for I am glad to see that the members are workiug together again. Tho advance of the district is what all of us have at heart, and let us, now that the tile of prosperity has set in, once and for all shake off tho stigma so long attached to us, that wo are sleeply and non-progressive; that, wo want " now blood" and more energy. Whatever is undertaken for the good of the district should bo assisted by tho people to the best of their power, and tho more attractive wo make our town to outsiders, the better.for us all. —l am, &c, " Patriotic."