RIVAL POULTRY SHOWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 30, 30 October 1907, Page 7

RIVAL POULTRY SHOWS.

TROUBLE AT. PALMERSTON:"; ] '> "," (PROM OVB OWN .'CORnicsrpNDKrT,). : ..> Palmerston, Octbher ' A most interesting situation is.'developing but of the poultry fanciers' campaign against the Manawatii A. and P. Association. The ' history .of this.'question is . briefly as ■follows': v 1',.f;',;'.,,:'. : •'■> ■.■'."•.'.• .■.•' i ;••;'. ; : . .At,, "tlie, Maiiawath . Association's':'firsi winter show, held some years ago, a c'onihinatibn was etfectccl with the. Mauawatu Poultry 'Associat'iohj and a ' combined show Was held.. , Tjie Poultry Association drdw • about.. £70 their share ; 6f the profits.. Elated id their wealth .the poultry ■ people .'decided .'ii'wit year','to '.hold a .separate,- show.They did. thisj-aiid. the results were disas- : ta-pus.. Thoy lost their £70 in addition, "to £20 they -pi'oyibu'sly .held,' and 'incurred a debt of £60. 'To saVe'thcmselves they'throw . themselves again.upon .'the A-., and P;'..Association, which'received > theiii into its. arms, ; paid off their debt, and restored their show... reserving 'tho ■right_,of veto because, itv.did the financing.-,.. ThVveto was never exercised. ; • The show was built'ujj into a show second' .. 'only to the huge colonial poultry .'show held '_ : at Chfislchurch; / : ':'!''' ;,/!'' : ' ''.•> -.'', '.,'.'?',) '"• Thq-poultry people, again became di'ss'atis- • ficdjand demanded.No. 3 hall as ji .separate' poultry fitt'ed.,'up',,.'and,2u.',p'ar i'cent.of i;hb gate. ; _ The A:. and' P. Association -jibbed oh-this,"-and last year another .split occurred. Each body.-, held,.. a.',.sh'o\y. ■The, Poultry Association! 1 niiidb a loss' of befc:w:?<>.n £38 and; £<o.'-Th'ey;;then-invoked 'the' aid fifjtho •North Island -'Poultry- Association. All- those •farmers who "exhibited' at the'A. and P. 'Show: wore disqualified;;.: The:exh.ibi- . tors..-.,nhn'ibered ''over, si'^y,,-and-.-,included Messrs.' G. R.' Atifrood .'aii'd SI JR.- Laricastor ' (Palmerston), .Baig'enfc'and,' Betts,. (Nqlson)-, F: Bradley ;and- J. D!; ircmongef . (Wellington), T., Devonshire (Levin),, Miss S. ~Fri!berg ! berg (Makotukti}, Mr.. Or. .Griffiths and Mrs. W. Av Soman (Blenheim), Messrs. B. 0. Gar,rett','J. SitMilson, O. G. Worsfold (EeildiiigY, 'John, Jarvis (Rbhgotea), D. J. . L'dvelook (Newbury), J. AV.MjMUIan (Stratford), T. J. . Niphblla': G. .li. .H'u'tchins'bn,, and JY. Ricliihgs , (Wanganui),.', Mrs.,B.„ .Vcal'c. .'(Ash- . hurst); and Mr.';'JohVi Tbriar (Auckland). ;, , The question, how 4 as, stated jn bur report of •yesterday is '.whether 'tlie Mahaw'atii-A. and P. .Association shall be allowed to set • the poultry .authorities, naught. ahdrcoiVtinub to. hpld" a show., as' intended... It ..is, c)'aimed.,that tho Manawatu A. and P. So. cioty's Poultry. Show,is'to bo the ■ upginninp; "of .'.ahow'era in 'poultry':show's, and' a,rcalj, utility show;.,.; „. ,-;..■■■ ,-.■.•,. ..... A conference_,of the, North Island Poultry, "■ Association . td-*mpr'r.bw is,,.to. diS'cuss Te's'olil-, ' tions from 'Auckland and Wellington, fiyonrifig- a trucej. and resolution's f rbiu I WahgaiiYa . barring all agricultural i associations- from holding poultryi classes. Great ructions are'., predicted, .bfuV it has how been 'disco'v'or'dl that the liidcting 'convening the, coftfel-enco! fixed,' iV6. of meeting in Prlnter'stori. Tlip question is being .aslte'd is i the me'ctmg left a dead secret; or is;thr. omission.going' to, \hako '\t, into :,v farce?. Aiicklajiddelc- ; gates,, who liayo arrived, ,arb dilig-! ' .eiitly,looking fpi''tlie-pTa'ce of.hi'eetiii'g.. ...;,-