TIKORANGI.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12868, 29 May 1905, Page 8

TIKORANGI.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

The annual entertainment in a*id of the funds of the local library on Tuesday evening was quite a success in every way. The ' attendance was as usual large, and the programme of vocal items, tableaux, etc., and the farce appeared to fully please the audience. The receipts amounted to about £12, and the nect result will- be a nice addition to the library funds. The library, ( ever since its' inauguration some nine years' ag-o, has made steady progress, and /is well up to the average with other libraries, comprising as it does between eleven iand twelve hundred volumes and also the complete series of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Tuesday evening's entertainment will enable the Committee to add still further to the worth of the library.

There was a good attendance at the Farmers' Union meeting on Friday evening, the subject under discussion being the recent land valuation. A considerable rise has been made in this district, and on Friday evening it was unanimously resolved*^o forward objections to the valuations. A Committee of five were appoint ed to arrange details andj Asseesment Court day e& Waitara promises to be a busy day. Mr Jas. Hine, jun., spoke strongly at the meeting in reference to the luke-warm support given by many farmers to the Union. He was convinced, he said, that farmers were too mean and apathetic. They expected the members of the Executive to travel and pay all expenses, and yei grumbled at the payment of the small sum of six shillings a year< as subscription. In fact, some of the most well-to-do farmers' subscriptions were unpaid. The speaker did not mince matters, but the truth is not always pleasant to hear. There appears to be some who object to the paying of a subscription and enquire what is the Union doing. For the subscripibion they pay out of one pocket there are some who fail to see the use of the Union unless more limn its equivalent is paid into another. Such a thing as an indirect benefit V»y uniting they cannot fathom. The local delegate lo the recent Confer, nee stated at the meeting 'that this ( branch was the -strongest in Taranaki, but how much more stronger could it j be made if farmers generally gave it their solid support ?