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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Taranaki, Hawke's Bay & Wellington Provincial Districts]

Societies

Societies.

The Wanganui Agricultural Association was founded in 1889 to replace the old Agricultural and Pastoral Society. The Summer Show is held in November, and the attendance is invariably large. There is a membership of 850. Officers for the year 1907:—Mr J. H. Nixon (president), Mr Selby Morton (secretary), and five vice-presidents.

Mr Selby Morton, Secretary of the Wanganui Agricultural Association, was born in the year 1867, in Turakina, where he was educated at the Rev. J. Ross' College, and later studied accountancy under Mr William Alexander, Wanganui. In 1899 he was appointed secretary to the Agricultural Association.