MANIOTOTO AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL ASSOCIATION

Otago Witness, Issue 1682, 16 February 1884, Page 13

MANIOTOTO AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL ASSOCIATION

TO HE KDITOR. Sm,— A. very ro3i>ec!ai>le -howo? this Association took pace in Ml' inder's padd»ok, Na-eOy, on January 30 last, when htock ot ull kinds, from large to hjuall. were" exnio te 1. Taking 1 hit > consideratiou that the above was the lltst fehow «if the .-ts^acia^inn, the uxiiibits may be fairly »ejja'ded »8 having been of a highly satis<actoiy cl.aiaccor. iind/iu cvtuy way creditable to tho district, but, Sir, there \ms one mnGier iv connec i >n with tho conduce of the show which ovokeil feelings ol 8 lrpnse ani contenjpt. 1 allude to the fact of one of tue e\hibit'u-« u» king- him elf (•ainful'y coi s. i^uous" by perais ently c ancmif attendance upon one or tho judaes. and can fully oxpla-n intr that cei'taio exhibits were hi-, and ih it thej were ihe produco cf stock purchased from h.ni ('he j id«i ), intending n>-> doubc thereby to bias the ju t ,c'sdeci- : ion iv hi* favour. Ho*, Sir, others as wtll a> myself are desirous of ascertaining through thu uiedti'm of your columns wheiher conduct such as tlut to whuh 1 have referred iiin any «ay u> st >mary or pei'inisnib c at, a stock show. Thrf posKidle effect nf pnvute infor nnti in bunt; {.ivm by exhibitor to jitoge is pl.nnl\« Ui c rnibic, and I may i-ta'c thutin thu case thu exhibitor earned ofl the prize 1 is, however, onlj jubtice to the 'tew^rdH to a> that bad tho matter beou brought under 'hi-not.ieeiheiri C< nrit-raL-ainsr decenct and d c >ruin wou d > ay» bien calleil t > account As tne vv'it tsa ciiculites vir.\ largely in 'he interior of vhaifo, the |>üblicauon of thi-i .eitei iv ir.-i columns misfit posaibU prey nt a n posui >n tlt-o'h re of tec dwjnioeful uonducr. ot --Inch I <i/.d the public ot this place ye. erall.} cutnjjUiu.— am, &c , j Farmer. l^aseby, february 8. '