Rodeo cowboys reply to statement

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32566, 27 March 1971, Page 23

Rodeo cowboys reply to statement

The Rodeo Cowboys’ Association (South Island) was considered by visiting Australian cowboys to be the leading rodeo association in the South Island, the association’s secretary (Mr J. Orlowski) said in a prepared statement this week.

He was commenting on a reply to a correspondent by Mrs C. J. Inns, secretary of the Canterbury Rodeo Association, who had said that the body for which he acted was affiliated to the New Zealand Rodeo Association (South Island), although a year or two ago a group of

malcontents, using a name very similar to the South Island Rodeo Cowboys’ Association, had commenced a series of their own meetings, apparently without much success.

Mr Orlowski said that the leading South Island contestants in each of the five standard rodeo events were members of his organisation. “We are willing to match any other contestants in any events in front of outside judges any time,” he said. “The attendance of the public at our affiliated rodeos would back up our claim to be the leading rodeo association in the South Island as we have gates probably double those of any other organisation,” he said. He said that his organisation had 70 actively contesting cowboys and was recognised by the New Zealand Rodeo Cowboys’ Association in the North Island and by rodeo bodies in Australia, Canada and the United States.