TO THE EDITOR

Otago Witness, Issue 1901, 10 July 1890, Page 18

TO THE EDITOR

Sm,— When " Oheesemaker " penned his last epistle he had evidently risen " aff his wrang side." as a Scotch friend of mine has it. Ab I have now done with his spleen I will tackle his facts, which are equally at fault. By inference ("O.'s" especial forte), "Cheesemaker" makes It appear that Mr Sawers "asked the Dairy Conference to pass a resolution empowering him to classify the dairymen, &c, but it wan rejected." Mr Sawers asked the conference to consider a proposal re granting certificates to dairymen, but it was not spoken against but by one man, who apparently sleeps in the same bed as " Cheesemaker." I shall endeavour to answer " C.'s" questions seriatim :—(a) The Exhibition Commissioners, who are accredited with knowing their business, alone can tell. (6) Ditto. (c)Oamaru storekeepers do get their cheefje from factories far removed from Oamaru. (d) Caunot tell, (c) Most emphatically Nol (f) They are not personal friends of Mr Sawers. (17) He was not. {h) They were not. I think that these replies ought to satisfy the most , fastidious, but I daresay "O " will turn up his nose at/ thq dish, I have presented in these replies, and

want a little butter bo them that they may the more easily pass through his thoraolo duct. The faot of the matter Is that "C " believes that no dairyman in the colony — with one exceptionis fit for Mr Sawers' position. It would be • piling the butter on too thick to say that that one is no less a personage than "O" himself. No, no, "O," I would not bo much as hurt your feelings by suoh an insinuation. But this I will say, If " U" will saw in the same pit with the 1 dairy instructor he must be content with the pit, while his opponent will be top Sawar. Trusting that " O " will tee fihat, let him deal ever so largely in the milky fluid, he ought to preserve a little of the milk of human kindness for distribution among his fellowß, and that he ought to cease from trying to ourdlo that of even a poor dairy instructor whose hands ore tied from replying.— l am, &c, Skim Milk.