APPRECIATION.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1433, 6 March 1911, Page 4

APPRECIATION.

PRESENTATION TO MR G. C

WHEELER

When it was recently decided to start a. flock book for the Lincoln breed of sheep, and thus take from tho general flock book considerably the larger portion of the entries, it was thought that some recognition of Mr G. C. Wheeler's services should bo made before tho division took place. Mr J. G. Wilson was therefore commissioned to purchase, on behalf of the Council of the Sheepbreeders' Association, some suitable present. A very (handsome silver rose-bowl was selected, on which is inscribed: "Presented to George C. Wheeler, Burford, by the Council of the New Zealand Sheepbreeders' Association, on behalf of the flockowners of the Dominion, in recognition, of his valued services for so many years as President of the Council."

To Mrs Wheolcr also there was presented from the came source a handsome silver tea service of the Queen Anne pattern, with the inscription: T< Presented to Mrs Wheeler by the Council of the Sheepbreeders' Association."

These presents were despatched direct to Mr Wheeler, as, owing to his present indisposition, it was thought that 'he would prefer to have jio public presentation.

Mr Wilson, in asking Mr and Mrs Wheeler to accept the bowl and tea service, said that at the nexb Council meeting, at which the members hoped to see Mr Wheeler presiding,, a public acknowledgment would then be made.

Few, except those who haveTbeen closely connected with the work of the flock book, know how anntiring and diligent Mr "Wheeler has been. The amount of labour entailed by each publication in going over personally the whole of the entries is alone very arduous work. Many years have elapsed since Mr "Wheeler first took up the work, and faithfully he has carried! it out. Unselfishly, and at his own cost he has laboured unceasingly. Everyone knows tho public services he ihas rendered in so many ways ; and on every hand sincere sympathy is expressed in his severe illness, and hopes for his speedy recovery. As a Farmers' Unionist Mr Wheeler has ever been loyal, and we join in these expressions of goodwill 'and sympathy, 'and hope he will soon bo able to return to tho work which he has so efficiently performed ;; for. the public, and which has been so,highly .appreciated by them.—Farmers' Union Journal.