Complimenting Feilding’s Enterprise

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3496, 4 November 1926, Page 3

Complimenting Feilding’s Enterprise

A warm tribute to the enterprise of the Feilding Agricultural and Pastoral Association was paid by Mrs. A. Clark, of Featherston, who judged the Home Industries Section at the Manawatu Show on Tuesday. In voicing an appeal for more consideration from the Manawatu Association in the mutter of prizes for the cooking classes Mrs. Clark remarked that the section gave the honsewhea the hardest and hottest work and their efforts were worthy Of greater recognition. “The Feilding Association,” said Mrs. Clark, "could sot. Manawatu an example where splendid prizes attracted large entries. The Feilding Association had a magnificent trophy for the competitor gaining the most points hi the Show. This trophy could bo won by a competitor in the home industries class just, as readily as a cattle or sheep exhibitor."

Rightly, Mrs. Clark said, the Feilding Association showed a gracious consideration for the hard work that the ladies had to undertake in preparing their comestibles. And why should not this he so? The cooking exhibits were the result of skill and good judgment, whereas the stock-owner often ran away with a magnificent prize solely because he had money enough to purchase good animals.

The Feilding A. and P. Association has encouraged this class from its inception some twenty-three years ago when the first prize was Ids. The prizes to-day arc ft for first and Ids for second, and in addition there arc three trophies for the highest aggregate points. These trophies are allocated as follows: One for the cookery section, one for the preserves section, and the remaining one for the novices cookery section. The support ghon this section in Feilding is remarkable and last year extra acommodation had to be found for the exhibits. Feilding certainly leads in its encouragement of the Home Industries classes.