"YANKEE SLIMNESS."

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8302, 22 November 1915, Page 7

"YANKEE SLIMNESS."

PROTEST FROM A. AND P.

ASSOCIATION.

Ai the meeting of the Ashburton Agricultural and Pastoral, Association on Saturday the chairman (Mr D. G. Wright) asked leave to road a letter he had received from the secretary of the Panama-Pacific Exposition, stating .that ho had been advised by tho New Zealand Commissioner at San Francisco that-tho following.procedure was to be adopted in obtaining tho awards that had been allotted to exhibits:—The Exposition would present a diploma and medal to each recipient of an award. The diplomas and medals respectively were now being engraved and minted by tho ■ United. States Government. They would be issued free by tho Exposition authoritites, but the medal would be in bronze only, and the fortunate winners could silver or gold-plate them after ' receipt at their own expense. The medal was being speciallyprepared to enable this to be done.

Mr Wright characterised the letter as "a sample of Yankee slimnoss." He had fwwn advised that'-ho had won three medals, but Me 'certainly was not gome; to .hwe' t.h^m'. plated;

'My' : ':»!..''Siriii^ff»l.'ow-:said jthat he, had received a\similar^fetter, and had been in communJoJiii^n -with- Mr "Bfuco, .Director.■ of" .'the. Ziive. Stock Division.in Wellinirton about it. Mr • Bruce thought that the Exposition was placing a great injustice ■: upon tho breeders who had exhibited, and he wanted •• the: co-operation of all those who had received letters, ;in protesting Against such treatment. ' He wanted all those farmers who had received the letters, to write to the Exposition authorities protesting against the injustice that had been done. The farmers who had exhibited had sent forward-their produce gratis to the New Zealand Government for it to be se.nt on to the Exposition, and had done all they could to make the exhibit a* worthy one.

Mr Wright, said that the wool had been given to the Government of New Zealand for the Exposition as a collective exhibit. It.had recently been stated in the cables that the medals were to be of silver and gold. Mr J. Cow thought it would be best to treat the communication with contempt. Mr Stringfellow, said that 134 lots of wool, had be<jn sent forward to the New Zealand Government, and that three experts, had spent some days sorting it out. They :had found, upon examination, that the wool was all so good that none;-could-besthrown out, and-had pronounced it the best -lot'they had seen in their lives. If the- Association passed a resolution it would strengthen Mr Bruce's hand in the protest which he was nmking. The speaker, foi- one, had sent a letter or protest to the ExpoW'tfon .. / , . 1 Hi* -Cow Association would: be : in a «(6nnder p/witioii' if -tlie information'had came vbefore.tlie meeting first--hand. He was, of'course, not in accord with:./"the taetacs 'which Jind been adopted by the Exposition authorities. The discussion then dropped.