FORTHCOMING AGRICULTURAL SHOWS.

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XXVII, Issue 3, 20 September 1923, Page 210

FORTHCOMING AGRICULTURAL SHOWS.

Hawke’s Bay A. and P. Society Hastings, 17th and 18th October. Poverty Bay A. and P. Association : Gisborne, 23rd and 24th October. Marlborough A. and P. Association : Blenheim, 24th and 25th October. Timaru A. and P. Association : Timaru, 24th and 25th October. • Wairarapa P. and A. Society : Carterton, 24th and 25th October. Manawatu A. and P. Assn.: Palmerston North, 30th and 31st Oct. and 1st Nov Ashburton A. and P. Association : Ashburton, 31st October and 1st November. Wanganui A. and P. Association : Wanganui, 7th and 8th November. Canterbury A. and P. Association : Christchurch, 8th and 9th November. Egmont A. and P.. Association : Hawera, 14th and 15th November. Waikato A. and P. Association : Hamilton, 20th and 21st November. North Otago A. and P. Association: Oamaru, 21st and 22nd November. Stratford A. and P. Association : Stratford, 21st and 22nd November. South Otago A. and P. Association : Balclutha, 22nd and 23rd November. Otago A. and P. Society: Dunedin, 28th and 29th November. Southland A. and P. Association : Invercargill, nth and 12th December. , Feilding I., A., and P. Association: Feilding, 5th and 6th February. Clevedon A. and P. Association : Clevedon, 9th February. Dannevirke A. and P. Association Dannevirke, 13th and 14th February. Taranaki Metropolitan Agricultural Society : New Plymouth, 5th and 6th March. Waikato Central Agricultural Association : Cambridge, 5th and 6th March. Methven A. and P. Association : Methven, 27th March.

, (Agricultural and Pastoral Association secretaries are invited to supply dates and location of their shows.)

Rural Credit Associations. Act. Under the Finance Act, 1923, are repealed subsections (2), (3), (4), and (5) of section 6 of the Rural Credit Associations Act, 1922, the text of which was published in the Journal for December, 1922. Section 6 deals with the liability of members for the debts of the association, and the subsections now repealed made such debts a charge on the assets of the members, with priority over all . other charges created after the incorporation of the association.

Presents of New Zealand Lamb. — In order to advertise New Zealand lamb, arrangements have been made by the New Zealand. Meat-producers Board, through its London Office, to deliver single carcases of prime New Zealand lamb to any address in Great Britain for the sum of £1 13s. per carcase. All that is necessary is to remit that sum to the Secretary of the Meat-producers Board, P.O. Box 121, Wellington, together with the friend’s full address.

British Market for Peas cmd - Beans. The following information was cabled by the High Commissioner, London, on 8th August : Peas— for New Zealand partridge declined during the strike to 67s. 6d. per quarter c.i.f., but have recovered, and are now 77s. 6d. to 80s. ex store, though demand is slow. Tasmanian maple afloat are offered at 91s. Market is firm for blue. Prices of Japanese are affected by the earthquake, and have advanced 50s. to 90s. per ton ; £20 per ton is asked for Tasmanian afloat ; for good quality New Zealand near-at-hand shipments values are about £18. Beans-Market quiet. New Zealand nominally quoted at 50s. to 52s. per quarter, ex store.

Hubam Clover. — New-Zealand-grown seed of Hubam clover is obtainable from the Honey-producers’ Association, Stanley Street, Auckland. The plant is an annual—not a biennial as stated in last month’s Journal.

- ■ Moumahaki Ayrshire?. — A good opportunity exists at present for privatepurchase of stock from the Ayrshire herd of the Moumahaki Experimental Farm, near Waverley, there being a few yearling heifers and bulls available.