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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 138, 11 June 1918, Page 8

Sir James Wilson, of Bulls, has forwarded a cheque of £5 15s to the Masterton A. and P. Association as a donation, being the prize winnings, over and above expenses incurred at the last show.

! Ministers of the Crown have some vexatious experiences with deputations which make sudden calls. It is a rapid telephone ring and a hasty invasion which leaves a Minister very little time to peruse files or make other preparations for the visitation. Of course, it may happen that the occasion or need of deputational interview may arise on the spur of a moment, but there are cases i when thero is no excuse for the helteri skelter onsets. Sometimes a deputation | begins its journey on an understanding , that it is to have, a private parley with ; a Minister, but by the time that the I raiders reach their objective they have a change of mind and desire the press. A I messenger makes a rapid run to a telephone, and newspaper offices may receivo a summons at an awkward time. Much inconvenience and annoyance are caused by the vagueness of the arrangements made by deputationists. Sometimes the press is completely overlooked, though a deputation desires publicity. For example, no invitation was received by the press to attend an important deputation to Sir James Allen and the Hon. T. M. | Wiltord between 4 and 5 o'clock yester- , day afternoon. Enquiries show that the ; deputation was between two minds up to the last moment, and finally the members favourable to publicity prevailed. Representatives of papers discovered the ■deputation accidentaAlV when ma-king their rounds between 4 and 5 o'clock.

Dairy produce exports being now in their millions of pounds, and dairy factory property and dairy herds so valuable and extensive, it is to be proposed at tho Palmerston Conference: —"That the time has arrived when a Co-opera-tive Insurance Company should be formed for the purpose of taking over all dairy companies' risks." Dairy produce insurance- business now handled by Stato and private offices has now become a very big thing, and some farmers feel that they should do the business for their own profit.

On 14th June, at 2.30 p.m., Messrs. Thompson Bros., Ltd., will sell at Messrs. IJltiko and Carlisle's yaids, Pirie-stxee\ hisses, lorries, drays, vans, harness, tto.