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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 2530, 13 September 1893, Page 2

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Wednesday, september 13, 1893. ;the coming a. and p. show. ♦

Preparations are now being pushed forward in connection with the forthcoming Agricultural and Pastoral Show. Tbe yards and general accommodation are to be improved, and it is hoped that satisfactory arrangements may be made for getting the judging over expeditiously. It will have been noticed that; tbe committee haa passed a resolution in favour of the single judge system, and tbe intention, we believe, is to appoint one man to eaoh section. In connection with tbe show we think it would be wise to make a special effort to make it interesting and instructive to people concerned in the dairying industry. It is a subject on which there is much to be learned, in which advance must be made if the industry is to progress as it should do, and in which the large majority of people m the district are vitally interested. The society on this coast which makes the most of thi3 industry will be the most successful and tbe most useful association. We observe that at the Victorian Royal Agricultural Society's Show in Melbourne recently, dairying matters from special milking breeds of cows to the manner of packing butter were important features of the exhibition. The Australasian remarks that " the great advanoe made by the dairying industry has never been more markedly shown. Those interested in this source of national wealth cannot fail to notice the great improvement that is shown not merely in the quality of the exhibits themselves, bat* in the manner in which they are got up and packed. . . Of the quality of tbe butter itself little need be said, except that the experts must have bad an exceptionally difficult taßk in deciding the very fine points of difference between the exhibits." We should be glad to be able to make similar comments on the Egmont Show.