A FRIENDLY CRITIC.

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7800, 23 June 1904, Page 2

A FRIENDLY CRITIC.

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—As a visitor to your Winter Show may I be allowed to make a few remarks' on it through your valuable columns. First, great, credit and praise is due to the committee and stewards who have worked so hard to bring the Show to such an unparalleled success. I should presume they will have to be prepared witb double the covered space that they have now. This great object lesson will stimulate many to exhibit next year that have hitherto refrained from doing so. Talking of exhibiting, I have a friend in business here who was debarred from exhibiting by the powers that be saying his line of goods had no affinity whatever to tho dairying industry. Well, I fail to see what bicycles or phonographs have to do with the industry, unless tho committee thought dairymen might be induced to use a bike to get their cows up to milk night and morning, and then by the aid of a phonograph the bleating of a calf through that abomination might encourage the cows to give their milk freely. Then the kind of vehicles exhibited are hardly the likely means lo be adopted to get the milk to the creamery. I would suggest two 30-horse-power boilers set in brickwork be employed for steam purposes ; it will be found none too much. As sawdust should bo cheap in and around Palmerston a layer in all tho alley ways would add to the comfort of visitors and would probably get rid of the quagmire just outside the Show. I don't like to contemplate how things would have been had it been wet. Next year, by conspicuously placed placards, or better still the persuasive voice of some of the stewards, the visitors must be induced to "keep to the right," and to help this there must be an "indoor and outdoor." Tho refreshment bar should be under cover and twice its present size. I daresay the cost to whomsoever runs it is as great as any of the other spaces, and people should' be allowed to get what they want in comfort. Finally, next year let anyone exhibit who is willing to pay for the spaces. The showground, is laige enough in all eone-xienco. • I am afraid I have trespassed somewhat on your space, but beg to thank you in anticipation. Anyone with half an eye can see this show is going to be a big thing, and any suggestion to help it on should not be out of place.—l am, etc.,

A Visitor,