YOUNG FARMERS.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17076, 13 April 1927, Page 3

YOUNG FARMERS.

SHOW AT FEILDING.

lIMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT. The Young Farmers’ Club, recently formed in connection with the Fcilding Agricultural High School, last week conducted s, junior show—a miniature in every respect of the agricultural and pastoral shows of the Dominion. The fixture, although a novelty, was a complete success, and opens up another avenue for the promotion of agricultural education in the most attractive form, giving the scholars a rare opportunity to increase their practical knowledge.

Mr A. Campbell, the first president of the Young Farmers’ Club, in an address at the opening of the show, complimented Mr L. J. Wild, principal of the school, upon the interest which he had taken in the junior show scheme, and alluded to the potential value of such exhibitions. The Young Farm-

ers’ Club idea, aided with Boys’ and Girls’ Agricultural Clubs, would, he thought, be taken up enthusiastically in other parts of New Zealand. Mr J. G. Eliott, AI.P., who offi-

cially opened the show, extended congratulations and gave an assurance of his support of the Young Farmers’ Club, which he deemed such a potential force in the increased production

movement advocated by banking and other institutions as the need of the hour. Cheers were given for Alessrs Campbell, Eliott, and Wild. The exhibits were not confined to High School pupils. Town and country primary schools entered the lists as well and the indoor display in the school building was creditable to a degree, especially insofar as exhibits of planLs and grasses were concerned. Stock exhibits were paraded on the school grounds, and, despite the smallness of entries, quality was by no means lacking.