THE FUTURE OF THE NATIONAL SWEET PEA SOCIETY.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 17, 26 April 1911, Page 40

THE FUTURE OF THE NATIONAL SWEET PEA SOCIETY.

Dear Veronica. — In your special sweet pea number Mr. Osmond writes on the alaive subject: “Evidently, like Alexander the Great, he wants more worlds to con ■pier. for. not content with a North Island Society, he is preparing to annex the South?* Now, whilst not saying one word against such a pro|M>sal. don’t you think it would be lietter. Indore invading the South Island, to put the North on its own legs? It is the merest infant as yet. We don’t know even how the finances of its first “splutter” have fanned out, nor do we know who is the secretary. Your paper has never recorded who the executive have appointed, nor even if they have ever met since their appointment at Pal merston, as recorded in your pages. Mr. Osmond is there reported as saying "he did not want to see the National playing second fiddle to any local show,” but evidently Mr. Osmond has seen fit to change his mind, for he now admits “the local committee might almost be called the show committee,” and if the show committee. then surely the local committee runs the show, and the National plays “second fiddle” to the local. What Mr. Osmond terms the main function of the society, viz., the creating and fostering of an industry in the Dominion in growing sweet peas for seed especially for export trade.” seems to be a large order, and one on which specialists only can give any adequate idea of the cost.——l am. etc..

GATHYRUS.