INGLEWOOD NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11820, 18 November 1901, Page 1

INGLEWOOD NEWS.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

An excellent spread was provided to those wh<> were fortunate enough to attend the Inglowood Savage Club's annual dinner, which was held at Mr R. Grylls' hotel on Thursday evening. The bill of fare was all that could be desired and groat praise is due to Mr Grylls for the good things provided. Mr G. Bateman. President of the Club, occupied the chair', and Mr J. Adams the vice-chair. After the good things I had been done full justice to, the ; Chairman proposed the toast of The King. The Army and Navy was proI posed by the vice-chair, and respon- [ ded to by Messrs W. C. Percival and H. Evans. "In the course of his remarks Mr Percival said that a remark, passed at the sham fight held on Monday, amused him very much, to the effect that they, had learned something about . fighting even if it was only to show how it was not to be done (which remark would infer that someone Had blundered). Local - Industries was J proposed by Mrj G. C. Bateman, who in the coiirse Jof his remarks said ' that local had reached so far, iha,t ft w,a<t\h&,rdly necessary to '^o out of the -iSace for anything required by settlers. The toast was responded' to by, Messrs J- Wirifield arid E. Olson. The Dairying .Industry Wjos proposed by. Mr G. W. Bennett, wiio said that during his. stay, her© the dairying industry had J increased phenomenally and things were very different now to the times wWen butter could be dished up with a spoon and the labour was extremely light The chief difficulty .Was the employment of labour. He strongly advised any. of the young members w_ho were pre-.-sent that intended going" dairy farming to ge,t married as soon : as possible as he considered; this was the only way to get over the labour question. " • , r , ' Mr Leech, in responding, said he had started very youtig in thej dairying industry and his; experience was that the labour tto successfully carry on dairy farming - *nis . a that he could not , fath/dm'. 'He said probably ' Mr Percival could enlighten them on. that question. Mr Pe»cival said th>;t the butter question' was;going w ,io be .a very large one,; arid if.it had, not ljeen for, the dairying industry, we should probably have hadVmaafr- iidre visits from the . D»p.A;>n4 probably tbe undertaker w^ould * have ■ been kept busy. To show how the industry was increasing he,, said £hat v the pay sheet for one Qf the factories 'for the end of September, was. £-700 at the end of October it was £2000 and the next month' or two" will Show a still further increase- He considered that one of the best toeq^urep adopted by the Government' w.as ; the ■of butter before' it left the colony. Mr J. Tuck proposed the toast of The Boys at the Front, and especially mentioned -Mr T. Phillips, a member bf the Club, ,who since he has been in South . Africa, had" not enjoyed the best S oT healths He hoped they would give Tom a real good time when he came back. Mr Winfield's name was coupled with the toast, and art responding he ,said he was vei'y closely associated with two of the boyp at the front— in Mr T. Phillips and D.< Evans-^and he' also was well acquainted , with; L. I«eech and W. Grylls, aiid tie .thought-, they would be equal, to < quartette that the Empire could ,pr.oduceV when it canie to^the business part of the campaign, i -•* "" i > Mr Hamerton proposed the toast of The Savage Club.' Althoughynot a Savage himself ne. hoped he, would, be before the next: annual ' dinners The toast was coupled witlh the name of thoPresident, , Mr G. jßateman, and the Secretary, Mr A: CjOrdwe^.Mr Bateman said he was very" proud to have the hdnbur of being the first president of the ;club,,< which was started in a very- small way,' an<l had rapidly increased ,in f membership, which now numbered- 6Q* They possessed a piano and sundry other ar-, tides. - ; , ' Mr Cordwen also responded,, Mr Olson, in proposing the toast of The Farmers' Union, said the Union was only comparatively a new thing in this^district,.' but since its inception int6 Sthis^and other districts the membership had reached 20,000, The toast Was coupled with the names of Mes&rs "C. "Leech, vicepresident of "the Union, 'and J. Tuck, i secretary. Mr lieteoh "said the Union was first started by fchfe fruit growers in Auckland, as they considered they were not getting; iaii'ly treated with the sole of their The Union had' only been started, here six months ago, but Jihd.inejnbership had rapidly increased;- ' and - had-* now reached the figure* quoted, by Mr Olson. The New Zealand Farmers' Union is" -now greater than all the industrial Unions^ put together. In future an organising canvasser be appointed to c&nv»»s the district, which will very considerably increase the membership, as. the. districts have' not by any- means- been properly canvassed. Another good thing about the Union is th.at pressuf/6 can be brought to bear where necessary to further the' interest? of the

faxrners. - Mr Tuck, In ref|pond»ng. said that the success of fohe ;Union was ..very largely due to Mr- C. Leech, had worked very hard and Had spent a lot of time in canvassing for members and organising meetings. Another -who had spent a lot of 1 time was Mr R, Old. aw*. the thanks of the farmers 'were due to these gentlemen for pushing the Union and making it the success it iSj'in this -disThe toast of • The Latjies was proposed by Mr -F. Spurdle, and responded to by Messrs J. A. Cordwen, J . W. Wheeler, and ,T. Vincent. , The Press was proposed by Mr Percival.'and responded td by Messrs Hauiei-ton, -G. Bennett,, .and Jas. Tuck. la the coufr.se of his reifaarks Mr Hamertqn »ai<J lt s agquld always be his aim to report a ublic matters fairly! and he would giye credit where credit was .due, and if he found anyone in public life doing what he considered was not right he would not sihirk showing him up publicly. — "' »• -i— A very enjoyable evening was brought .to a. clo^e by singing Auld Lang Syne at 12 <>'clqck. A meeting of tfoe Horticultural So»' ciety Cominjttee'^as held at Mr H. Thomson's romce onThurSiday. The schedule for ,the - anaual. show was read -and adopted, am* will be placed in the hands* of -the --printer almost at once. The matter of allotting the special prizes was also attended to, and the members of v th<s committee were very gratifiw *° # nd that the townspeople .had, responded so willingly W ' giving -special prizes, and the committee anticipated a yory sucpessful show, which will be held ■ in March nex^.,