NEW SHOW PROPOSED.

Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 26, 14 July 1911, Page 4

NEW SHOW PROPOSED.

AN OPUNAKE MOVEMENT,

There is talk of another Agricultural Association being formed in Taranaki. The suggestion was first made that the new show should be a winter show, but it v/as subsequently proposed that there should be a stock show. The centre in which the society may be formed is Opunake.

The matter arose at a meeting of the'Farmers, Union, where Mr J. M'Hardy raised the question of the formation of a winter show company. The outcome of the ensuing discussion was a resolution that the feeling of the district should be ascertained as to advisability of forming an Agricultural and Pastoral Association.

Opunake, which would be the head-quarters of the association is a smallish town, but is the centre of a very large district. It is a costal port, thirty miles from Hawera and forty from Mew Plymouth, on the Main South Road. Dairying is the chief industry. The earlier dairy factories in the district were those of the Crown Company, but the numerous factories and creameries which now dot the landscape are almost all owned co-operatively. There are very few proprietary concerns.

A fair amount of cattle fattening is clone, particularly in the direction of Pihama. There is not much sheep farming, but some good flocks are seen in the southern portion of the district. Various industries have been pursued, but dairying is now predominant.