PICNIC.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 29, Issue 1478, 26 February 1898, Page 3

PICNIC.

Ideal plcnlr wither w»a t-njovnl on ThumKr hv the 500 picnicker*Avho irftther<>d"frntn nil parts vt the district, in vehicle* the most varied, ut. the Muniototo Dairy Factory, Mr John LaW*, Ewebnrn. as the KUeswolMr W. Oirnberjr. Refreshment* had been provided for all with thßrortwi'tic profusion and those who were present rtad a verT pleasunt oHrtnir. Mr Ryder, on behalf of the gatberinir, thanked Mr Ginsberg for the very enjivable picnic he had pro-«-uied for them. He wished tiie factors every -uccess. If A. heartv cheers were ifiven for MrUirsi.enr. Mr Glnsbeiy thanked the laities for their splendid picnic given 12 months aifo, which he would appreciate for all time. This picnic was in acknowledgement, not in emulation, of that entertab pielit which was eiven in reeoirnitinn of his hnvinit started an industry that would lie beneficial to the district. Owine to the unpropltiom sea«on the factory had not for its two seasons been a success either to manufacturer or producer. The product was however, winning it*, way. He especially thanked Gimmerburn people for their support (his season. He assured them the Eweburn people desired a central place for a factory. Given a -gim «eason a creamery would be erected at GimroVhurn. He hoped next year, with a decrease in up-cnuntrv °*Mr ag t; to be a,,le t0 Jf" e an increawd price fo"r milk. He had rejected an offer for the sale of the factory to a co-operative companv, some of whose shares would have been pl&eed with the farmers, because though he would have pained by it, it would have meant loss to them. Referring to his efforts to iret a second doctor forthe district he characterised the report of his meeting and the criticisms thereon in The Chboxiclk as unfair, and said that some of the speakers did not give him fair plav. The other side w'ould be heard later: that was nefther the time nor the place to pursue the subject. -[We had no intention of settinp down in words what Mr Ginsberg surely mijrht have understood il he would, and what he now compels us to stat., viz thai the publication of certain of the details of hit case, as submitted to the meeting, was in the public interest extremely inadvisable, and Jt would hare been no kindness to Mr Ginsberg-, bu« the reverse to publish this part of his remarks. As to his imputation of bias, we can afford to be generous and forgive it Ed.]