SEEDS AT THE WINTER SHOW

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2056, 26 May 1896, Page 3

SEEDS AT THE WINTER SHOW

We take the following correspondence from the Press: —

«* Sir, — I extract the following from your report of tho Canterbury A. and P. Association's Winter Wbow :— ' The judges must have been kept in ignorance of the fact that in the classes for cowgrass, white clover and Alsike clover the entries of the Canterbury (N.ZJ Seed Company were priced at neirly double the rate of those exhibited by Mr Stead, both samples being colonial grown, and the latter not hand picked.' " It is within my personal luinwled ye that the judges were not so kept in ignorance, but. the question of price had no bearing on the case. The awards we c given for the best seed, quite irrespective of the question whether or not an inferior seed could be off'red cheaper.

'• I beg to give an unqualified denial to the implied suggestion that our sped was hand picked. To anyone who knows what hand picking of bulky samples like these would mean, the denial wou'd indeed be superfluous. '• In conclusion I have to protest against what, I think, most business men will agree with mo in styling a new departure in etiquette, by singling out by name a firm who have been successful in gamin? awards with the apparent intention of explaining tho ■wait of success of a less fortunate rival. — Yours, &c., For the Canterbury (N.Z.) Seel Company. Limited, CfiAKi.Es Lees, May 21, 1896., Manager."