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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 55, 3 August 1885, Page 4

Auckland A. and P, Association has discovered that devoting its whole attention 1 to the details of the annual < exhibition is a mistake, and that m.- . terest in 1 its proceedings is wanting. Tt . has resolved to devote itself to - pvac- ,; tical and useful afiiiirs. The best ; methods of grappling with insect j: plagues', lectures on subjects oF special '-. interest to cultivators of the soil, and j similaV matters, are to" be initiated■We venture to say that any such I Association which does not make these latter matters the chief items m • its prou'ramme, which doea not devote Ito them more time, pains, and attonftion than it does to the details of its jShow,iis:for. all practical purposos •-> inseiess in»lituti.oa. Just as well might tlie ' Educaliorial Ifistituto nieeb -Annually for the • purpose of prekeftting prize's to" teachers' who secure; most .m irks for 'their scholars )ky cramming theoa ; ;durij)g the .'year, Jinstead of comparing notes as to thg :pi;rtqekd.s used m -obtaining refill tei, ns" for farmers;; to imagine;, they are ■doina; any good by competing for (jprizes :fpr :the.bost cattle and .slice'p f ;<wli(>n not a,\y,oi,d i* ssiiil' or hint given ks to how the results exhibited are ; attHitiCd,.i,;.: ;.'.:••- ■ . -.' : ;• J ! '■.■'::•.■: .v A